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Václav
Hollar , known in
England as Wenceslaus and in Germany as Wenzel Hollar, was a Bohemian
etcher. He was born in Prague, and died in London, being buried at St
Margaret's Church, Westminster. Hollar, was a Bohemian exile, in
1636, while working in Cologne was
employed by the Earl of Arundel as
artist-in-residence to make drawings of his extensive art collection.
Some of these drawings are now the only information on the contents of
that impressive collection. In 1642 the Earl of Arundel (
from Wardour Castle , Wilts)left England for the Continent leaving his
wife in charge in Wiltshire , never to return. The turmoil of the civil
war caused Hollar to move to Antwerp in 1644, where he settled for a
few years. The main quantity of his work was done
for Dugdale who paid between £3 and £5 per etching
.W. Hollar,from Sir W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum ... (originally
published in 3 vols, London, 1655-1673; enlarged edn, 6 vols in 8
parts, by J. Caley and others,Wenceslas Hollar (13 July 1607 - 25 March 1677) e. He trained in the workshop of
Merian in Frankfurt, and became one of the foremost engravers of
topographical views in the 17th century. On account of his English
connections, Hollar finally settled in London, and during the Civil War
he fought on the Royalist side. His views of the city of London form an
invaluable record of its appearance before the Great Fire of 1666. He
was very prolific and engraved a wide range of subjects aparts from
views and landscapes.Hollar produced a variety of works; his plates
number approx 2740, and include views, portraits, ships, religious
subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still life in
many forms. His architectural drawings, such as those of
Antwerp and Strassburg cathedrals, and his views of towns, are to
scale, but are intended as pictures as well.
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St. John's Abbey. Ecclesiae Ccenobilis Colcestrensis in agro
Essexiano (ccenobio nondum everso) delineatae, et in quodam
codice MS. in Bibliotheca Cottoniana repertse, figura, 1661,
Hollar
Etching with engraving on laid watermarked paper from
Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies,
Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their
Dependencies, in England and Wales. Hollar had returned to
England in 1652 and begun working for the publisher John Ogilby and the
antiquary Sir William Dugdale. Over the next twenty-five years he
etched no fewer than 566 plates for them. Sir William Dugdale
(1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of Hollar's patron Thomas
Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled one of the most
significant histories of English religious houses, , Monasticon, Vol.
II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654)He had
spent his life in the study of genealogy and ecclesiastical and
monastic history. He was also an indefatigable collector of manuscripts
which are now in the Bodleian Library. . . (folded)
£45 x 2
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Lincoln
Cathedral / Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lincolniensis , Qualis OLim
Erat, antequam ejus Pyramis A 1547 1661, Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45 dedicated to
Michael Honywood dean of Lincoln
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Navis Ecclesiae Cathedralis B Mariae
Virginis Lincolniae Prosp Interior (Lincoln Cathedral, Interior) 1661,
Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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Lincoln Cathedral/
Ecclesia Cathedralis
Lincolniensis Facies Occidentalis 1672, Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45 dedicated to
Michael Honywood dean of Lincoln
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Lincoln Cathedral/
Lincolniensis Ecclesiae Cathedralis
Ameridie Prospectvs 1672, Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45 dedicated to
Michael Honywood dean of Lincoln
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Lincoln Cathedral/ Chori
Lincolniensis Ecclesiae Cathedralis 1672, Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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Lincoln Cathedral/
Area Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lincolniensis 1672,
Hollar /Plan
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £35
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Lincoln Cathedral/ Orientalis
Ecclesia Cathedralis Lincolniensis Facies 1672, Hollar /
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £55
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Mariae Overie olim Conventualis Ecclesiae ab Austro prospectus.
Depicts St Saviour's Church, now called Southwark
Cathedral. by Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677) Signed and dated lower 1.
: W: Hollar delin : et sculp': 1661. Title in cartouche
upper . :
Mariae Overie olim Conventualis Ecclesiae ab Austro prospectus.
The dedication of the donor of the plate Randolph Sheldon in
cartouche r.Occurs in this state folded in Dugdale, Monasticon,Vo\. II.
(1661), between pp. 940 and 941. and in earlier Hollar published work
so at the latest 1661 seems to be a faint ?40 numbering base edge so
presuming the Dugdale edition £45 inc x 2
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ST. KATHERINE'S BY THE TOWER. /Conventualis
Ecclesiae
Hospitalis S. Catharinae Juxta Tnrrim London : a
Meridie prospectus
Signed
and dated in lower 1.: W. Hollar fecit 1660. Title along the top :
Conventualis Ecclesiae Hospitalis S. Catharinae Juxta Tnrrim London : a
Meridie prospectus. Dedication of the donor of the plate, William
Petit, in cartouche upper r. Page number 4.60 lower r. Occurs folded in
Dugdale, Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661), between pp. 460 and 461.
The
Royal Hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine's, founded by
Eleanor, Queen of Henry II, in 1273, and remaining under the patronage
of the Queen Consort, 1 existed on the same site until 1825. It was
then pulled down to make room for St. Katherine's Dock. The foundation
was transferred to Regent's Park, but there are only a few remains of
the old church in the new St. Katherine's (e.g. part of some of the
stalls). . . . .St Katharine's by the Tower - full name Royal Hospital
and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine by the Tower - was a medieval
church and hospital next to the Tower of London. The establishment was
founded in 1148 and demolished in 1825 to build St Katharine Docks,
which takes its name from it. £45 inc x 2
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Higham
Ferrers, Northamptonshire
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £35 light age toning
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Southwellensis
Ecclesiae Collegiatae A Borea Zephiro Prospectus /
Southwell Nottingham
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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Southwellensis
Ecclesiae Collegiatae Ab Euro Aquilone
Prospectus / Southwell Nottingham
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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Hereford cathedral
/Herefordiensis Ecclesice Cathedralis ab Aquilone Prospectus,
engraved by W. Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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Hereford
cathedral / Herefordiensis Ecclesise Cathedralis
ab Occidente Piospectus, by Hollar
Etching
with engraving on laid watermarked paper from Monasticon Anglicanum:
or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals,
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England
and Wales. Hollar had returned to England in 1652 and begun
working
for the publisher John Ogilby and the antiquary Sir William Dugdale.
Over the next twenty-five years he etched no fewer than 566 plates for
them. Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686):English antiquary and friend of
Hollar's patron Thomas Howard, second earl of Arundel, Dugdale compiled
one of the most significant histories of English religious houses, ,
Monasticon, Vol. II. (1661),The text was written by Roger Dodsworth
(1585-1654)He had spent his life in the study of genealogy and
ecclesiastical and monastic history. He was also an indefatigable
collector of manuscripts which are now in the Bodleian Library. .
. (folded) £45
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