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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, Richard Pennington], p. 175-6 "A New Hollar Panorama of London", John Orrell, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 124, No. 953 (Aug., 1982), pp. 498–499 and 501-502; Lithographed copy of Wenceslaus Hollar's 1647 Long View of London, by Robert Martin, 1832, Museum of London
Wenceslaus Hollar (23 July 1607 – 25 March 1677) was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is known to German speakers as Wenzel Hollar ; and to Czech speakers as Václav Hollar ( Czech: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈɦolar] ).
Wenceslaus Hollar's 1647 Long View of London from Bankside is an exception. Projected from a single viewpoint it resembles the perspective of a modern panoramic photograph. Projected from a single viewpoint it resembles the perspective of a modern panoramic photograph.
The artist Wenceslaus Hollar became acquainted with the Arundels in Venice in 1636, and joined their retinue, marrying one of their servants. The newly married couple lived at Tart House while in London: their first child was born there in April 1643, and later that year Hollar engraved the hall in the background of a print Spring , the first ...
Arundel House (viewed from the north), 1646 engraving by Adam Bierling after a drawing by its then occupant, Wenceslaus Hollar. Map of Arundel House, drawn by Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1677. Arundel House was a London town-house located between the Strand and the River Thames, near the Church of St Clement Danes.
The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his etched Long View of London from Bankside in 1647. However, in 1988–89 the uncovering of a small part of the Globe's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 sides. [33] [34]
Wenceslaus Hollar's “Exact Surveigh” of the City of London, 1667 [3] shows it at the intersection of Friday Street and Watling Street, to the south-east, although Peller's Londinium Redivivum states that it "was situated on the south side of Bread Street, where that street forms an angle with Friday Street". [4]
Three views of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell by Wenceslaus Hollar (1661). Clerkenwell Priory was a priory of the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, in present Clerkenwell, London.