About the Artwork
Old Saint Paul's, Exterior: East
ca. 1658
Wenceslaus Hollar
1607-1677
German
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (19.4 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 × 14 3/4 inches (32.1 × 37.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S599
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and inscribed, in plate, lower right: W. Hollar delin: et Sculp:
Inscribed, in plate, top center: ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS S. PAVLI Lond: | AB ORIENTE PROSPECTVS. Inscribed, in cartouche, at upper right: Stella | Orientalis | huc conduxit | IOHANNEM | WALPOOLE | de Pinchbeck | in Com Line: Militem Inscribed, upper left corner: 166
Watermark, center left edge
Provenance
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hind, A. M. Wenceslaus Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeeth Century. London, 1922, no. 41.
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Old Saint Paul's, Exterior: East, ca. 1658, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S599.
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