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Wenceslas Hollar's map of Hull, c. 1640 with walls and castle shown. (up is east) The fortifications of Kingston upon Hull consisted of three major constructions: the brick built Hull town walls, first established in the early 14th century (), with four main gates, several posterngates, and up to thirty towers at its maximum extent; Hull Castle, on the east bank of the River Hull, protecting ...
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]). He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings.
Hull Castle was an artillery fort in Kingston upon Hull in England. Together with two supporting blockhouses , it defended the eastern side of the River Hull , and was constructed by King Henry VIII to protect against attack from France as part of his Device programme in 1542.
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
"Plan of Queenborough Castle, Kent... from the Hatfield MSS", published in 1915. Our knowledge of the appearance of Queenborough Castle comes from a plan in an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Hatfield House, also from a view by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) which is now lost but is known from some 18th-century copies and impressions. There ...
Ground Plan Wenceslaus Hollar's 1649 plan of Kenilworth Castle. Although now ruined as a result of the slighting, or partial destruction of the castle by Parliamentary forces in 1649 to prevent it being used as a military stronghold after the English Civil War, Kenilworth illustrates five centuries of English military and civil architecture.
Baynard's Castle by the River Thames, a reconstructed view published in 1790. Baynard's Castle was destroyed in the Great Fire of London [35] of 1666. The engraver Wenceslaus Hollar depicted considerable ruins standing after the fire, including the stone facade on the river side, [35] but only a round tower was left when Strype was writing in ...
Based on European festival book models, [1] Gascoigne's pamphlet is an idealized version of the courtly revels occasioned to entertain the Queen during her stay at the castle from 9 July to 27 July. Wenceslas Hollar, Kenilworth Castle before Civil War, 1656