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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableStudy law or become an artist? This question, which is still very topical today, had to be asked as early as the 17th century by the young Wenceslas Hollar, known as Wenceslaus Hollar in English and Václav Hollar in Czech. Fortunately for posterity, Hollar chose the artistic side and created countless drawings and copperplate engravings that still have great artistic and historical value today. Born in Prague in 1607, Hollar was apprenticed to the famous engraver Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1627, where he learnt, above all, his later highly regarded methodology of the topography of cities. During his training and stay in the Holy Roman Empire he met the Englishman Lord Thomas Howard, one of the most important art collectors of his time, and was significantly influenced by him. In 1637 Hollar followed his patron Howard back to England, where he spent the rest of his life.
During his training in Frankfurt and later in England, Hollar began to accept various commissions, including views and topographies of places in Germany, Bohemia, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland and present-day Morocco, as well as copperplate engravings of everyday life at the time, seascapes, depictions of nature and portraits of saints and well-known people. With his attention to detail, his experimentation with colour prints and his diligence, Hollar gradually made a name for himself and soon worked for the British royal court under King Charles I. Numerous books with illustrations followed, including classic editions of Homer or Vergil. After the great fire of London in 1666, in which the city centre of London was almost completely burnt out and destroyed, Hollar produced very detailed maps of London including its destroyed districts. These works as also Hollar's previous topographies of old London belong today to the most important sources about London in the Middle Ages. Because of his works about London, Hollar was sent on an expedition to Tangier and today's Morocco by King Charles II in 1668, whose illustrations and maps are also very important today.
The life of the artist was marked by many strokes of fate, such as the impoverishment of his family during the Thirty Years' War, the English Civil War and the temporary captivity of Hollar, the death of his son James by the Great Plague in London or the Great Fire of London. Hollar himself also lived in poverty for most of his life, more or less despite his talent and diligence, as he had little sense of negotiation and payment and often sold his works below value. Nevertheless, his oeuvre comprises approximately 400 drawings, more than 3000 etchings and more than 2700 printing plates, and his estate is one of the most important sources of early and middle 17th century Europe, due to his attention to detail and the distinctive documentation of numerous historical events. Wenzel Hollar died in London in 1677 in great poverty.
Study law or become an artist? This question, which is still very topical today, had to be asked as early as the 17th century by the young Wenceslas Hollar, known as Wenceslaus Hollar in English and Václav Hollar in Czech. Fortunately for posterity, Hollar chose the artistic side and created countless drawings and copperplate engravings that still have great artistic and historical value today. Born in Prague in 1607, Hollar was apprenticed to the famous engraver Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1627, where he learnt, above all, his later highly regarded methodology of the topography of cities. During his training and stay in the Holy Roman Empire he met the Englishman Lord Thomas Howard, one of the most important art collectors of his time, and was significantly influenced by him. In 1637 Hollar followed his patron Howard back to England, where he spent the rest of his life.
During his training in Frankfurt and later in England, Hollar began to accept various commissions, including views and topographies of places in Germany, Bohemia, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland and present-day Morocco, as well as copperplate engravings of everyday life at the time, seascapes, depictions of nature and portraits of saints and well-known people. With his attention to detail, his experimentation with colour prints and his diligence, Hollar gradually made a name for himself and soon worked for the British royal court under King Charles I. Numerous books with illustrations followed, including classic editions of Homer or Vergil. After the great fire of London in 1666, in which the city centre of London was almost completely burnt out and destroyed, Hollar produced very detailed maps of London including its destroyed districts. These works as also Hollar's previous topographies of old London belong today to the most important sources about London in the Middle Ages. Because of his works about London, Hollar was sent on an expedition to Tangier and today's Morocco by King Charles II in 1668, whose illustrations and maps are also very important today.
The life of the artist was marked by many strokes of fate, such as the impoverishment of his family during the Thirty Years' War, the English Civil War and the temporary captivity of Hollar, the death of his son James by the Great Plague in London or the Great Fire of London. Hollar himself also lived in poverty for most of his life, more or less despite his talent and diligence, as he had little sense of negotiation and payment and often sold his works below value. Nevertheless, his oeuvre comprises approximately 400 drawings, more than 3000 etchings and more than 2700 printing plates, and his estate is one of the most important sources of early and middle 17th century Europe, due to his attention to detail and the distinctive documentation of numerous historical events. Wenzel Hollar died in London in 1677 in great poverty.
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.jpg "The Knight, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "A Young Man Caressing an Old Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_execution_of_English_politician_Thomas_Went_-_(MeisterDrucke-971900).jpg "First English Revolution (1641-1649): execution of English politician Thomas Wentworth de Strafford (1593-1641) on 12/05/1641 at Tower Hill in London. Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (17th century) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Map of London After the Great Fire of 1666 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Trial of the Earl of Strafford in Westminster Hall, 1641, 1947 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Noble Woman of Vienna, Austria by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Several Habits of English Women, from the Nobility to the Country Women by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Emperor, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Pedlar, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a bald man in profile to left, 1644-52 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Destruction of Cheapside Cross; the")
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.jpg "Ornamental Sword Hilt by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Descent from the Cross (after Holbein) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Two Swans by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Grotesque Old Man with Flattened Nose in Profile to Left by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "View of the Tomb of Avaline, Countess of Lancaster (Wife of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster) in Westminster Abbey by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Old St Paul")
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 State 2 - (MeisterDrucke-607548).jpg "English Royal Arms (1660 – 1689, State 2) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Woman with circular ruff, bonnet and hair-pin, in profile to right by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Old Man with Pronounced Chin by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Forty-One Insects, Including Moths and Butterflies by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus, Swiss Alchemist and Physician by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Woman with a Wreath of Oak Leaves by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Hollar")
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.jpg "Baths of Diocletian, Rome by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1256754).jpg "Shell (Murex brandaris) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Bishop, 1651 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Knight and Death, from The Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1363891).jpg "Shell, Cassis Cornuta (Shells) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Two Deformed Heads by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1370708).jpg "Fable of the Basilisk and the Weasel by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1412051).jpg "Schelp, Charonia Tritonis (Schelpen Series Title) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Wife of a London Citizen or Artisan, 1643 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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 State 1 - (MeisterDrucke-607776).jpg "Aubrey (monument). State 1 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Cupid and the Swan, 1652 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia, 1648 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371534).jpg "Fable of the Satyr and the Farmer (series title: Fables) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Noble Spanish Woman, 1644 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a bald, sinewy man looking downwards, 1648 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman with V-Shaped Bourrelet on Her Head by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "London before the Great Fire by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Waggoner (from the Dance of Death) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a Man with Protruding Chin and Snub Nose Looking Upwards in Profile to Left by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Abbot by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Cardinal, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a Man with Curly Hair, in Profile by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Study of a Seated Girl, 1635 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1363933).jpg "Shell, Tonna Dolium (series title: Shells) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a Young Black Boy in Profile to Right by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Dead Stag by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1613221).jpg "Interior of the Crypt of St. Paul")
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.jpg "Four Boys, a Satyr and a Goat Standing to the Right (series title: Putti and Satyrs) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Matrona Tiguriensis, 1649 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-35993).jpg "Spring by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Lower Inner Part of Tangier by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Map of Civil War England and a View of Prague, 1632 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Citizen of Cologne and His Wife by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Gentlemen taking the")
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.jpg "Dragonflies, a Bumble-Bee, and a Butterfly by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Map of England and Wales by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Six Hounds by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Viennese Woman, 1643 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906499).jpg "Merchant")
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.jpg "Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_Alternative_namesAdamo_Te_-_(MeisterDrucke-1571515).jpg "Healing of the Cripples by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "English Lady in Winter Costume by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Aestas - Summer, Three-quarter-length seasons by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Diana as Huntress by Paulus Pontius")
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.jpg "Old St Paul")
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.jpg "A Moth, Three Butterflies and Two Beetles by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Pope, 1651 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Winchester House, Southwark, about 1649, from the Tower of St. Saviours, c1812 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "William Fenner, Rector of Rochford by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Westminster Hall by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Henry Colthurst, 1644 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Panoramic View of London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Coblentz, 1635 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Duke, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Jesus, St. John the Baptist and Four Cherubs by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Pietro Aretino, 1640 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a Man with Thick Curly Hair in Profile to the Left by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Bearded Old Man in Profile, 1645 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Charles I. State 3 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Strasbourg: A Toll House by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Woman Playing at a Keyboard, 1635 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Ruins of St Croix de Jerusalem by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Civis Coloniensis Filia, 1643 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Death")
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.jpg "Old St Paul")
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.jpg "Title to the Entry into Hemissem by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_engraved_by_Edward_Finden_-_(MeisterDrucke-60530).jpg "Richard Hooker, Engraved by Edward Finden by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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Animalium_Ferarum_-_(MeisterDrucke-1367352).jpg "Elephant, Monkey, Flowers and Insects by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Prospect of the Inner Part of Tangier, ca. 1670 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Four Seasons: Summer by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, at the Age of 26 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of an old man with a pronounced chin, short cropped hair and gaping mouth showing by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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