Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, Paperback / softback Book

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

The etchings of Wenceslaus Hollar are not only of a remarkably high artistic standard, but also represent an important pictorial chronicle of seventeenth-century England.

Numbering over 2700 they cover a vast range of subjects: cathedrals, ships, bird's-eye views of cities, scenes of the Thirty Years' War, butterflies, shells, women's costumes.

Hollar drew portraits of his contemporaries, illustrated the Bible, Aesop's fables, Homer, and Virgil.

Rembrandt apart, he was arguably the greatest, certainly the most skilful etcher of his day.

This catalogue for the first time identifies and listes all the etchings of Hollar.

Each print is fully described, and the various problems of the editions of the Dance of Death, of the costume prints, and of the Dugdale illustrations and the London maps are fully dealt with.

Mr Pennington has also written the first comprehensive and accurate life of Hollar, and this appears at the beginning of the book.

Information

Other Formats

£60.99

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information