Antique Engraving - Eton College Chapel - Wenceslaus Hollar

Title: Capellae Collegij Regalis de ETON ab Aqvilone Prospectus

Publication: Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales

Date: 1672

Description: Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar. View of chapel from north. Building on right in shadow, with tall tree behind. School buildings on left. Clock on small building between 2 leftmost buttresses.

Condition: Bold imprint generous margins with some marks and creases. Copy in the Royal Collection.

Image size: 250 x 375mm, 10 x 14.75"

£135.00

Order No. 9743

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Windsor Castle St Georges Chapel engraving by Hollar

Wenceslaus Hollar (23 July 1607 – 25 March 1677)
An engraver, etcher and artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. Hollar was one of the best and most prolific artists of his time. His work includes some 400 drawings and 3000 etchings. Hollar produced a variety of works. His plates number some 2740, and include views, portraits, ships, religious subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still life in many different forms He is known to German speakers as Wenzel Hollar; and to Czech speakers as Václav Hollar. He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster In 1652 he began working for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquarian Sir William Dugdale. Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for them.

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