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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 "Great View of Prague by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Lion and Tulip by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Five Boys and a Satyr, 1646 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Animals and Plants: Leopard with Plants and Insects, 1662 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1375729).jpg "Shell, Hippopus Hippopus by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Old St Paul")
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.jpg "Lying Deer, Facing Right 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 "Panoramic View of London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Map of England and Wales 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 "Grotesque Old Man with Flattened Nose in Profile to Left 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 "A Griffin 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 "Head of a Man with Protruding Chin and Snub Nose Looking Upwards in Profile to Left by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Funeral of General Johan Baptiste von Taxis, 1645 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Preacher and Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Matrisana M. 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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 State 3 - (MeisterDrucke-607669).jpg "The Abraham Story (in Full Sheet Form). State 3 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Old Woman and Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "A Young Man Caressing an Old Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Standing Lion by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Nobilis Mulier Bohemica 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 "Six Hounds 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 "The Rich Man and Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "London Wife by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Panoramic View of London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Matrisana M. 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 "Javelin Throwing by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Grotesque Profile of a Man Wearing a Hood by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Pedlar, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-75344).jpg "The Tower of London, c.1637-41 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Arms of Knights of the Garter by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Esther Before Ahasuerus by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Set of Butterflies, One of Twelve by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Six Insects by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1406001).jpg "Shell, Achatina Achatina, Shells (series title) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Aerial view of Winchester House by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Ciuis Londinensis Melioris Qualitatis Vxor by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "St Mary Overies, Southwark, London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Turnus Slaying Pandarus. State 2 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Christ on the Cross with Angels by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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Karikaturen_koppen_en_-_(MeisterDrucke-1405566).jpg "Two Deformed Heads Caricatures, Heads and Deformations after Leonardo da Vinci (series title) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of an old man with a large beard by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Bearded Old Man, 1645 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Map of the British Isles and illustrations of 17th century historical events by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Old Man and Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Cattle Plague. State 2 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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Amoenissim_-_(MeisterDrucke-1375399).jpg "View of Windsor Castle (Landscapes and Cityscapes) (Amoenissimi Aliquot Locorum in Diversis Provincijs Iacetium Prospectus) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Shepherd in the Wood by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Aeneas and Acestes (State 2) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Mulier Generosa Coloniensis, 1643 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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Verschillende_vog_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371532).jpg "Pigeons at a Dovecote (series title: Diversarum avium species, Various Birds) by Peter van Liesebetten")
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.jpg "Interior of the House of Lords in session, Palace of Westminster, London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The World is Ruled & Governed by Opinion by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Head of a Toothless Man with Bare, Sinewy Neck in Profile to Left by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Paradise Lost, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Frontispiece of The History of the Royal Society of London by Thomas Spratt, pub. 1702 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Panoramic View of London by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_(bundw_photo)_-_(MeisterDrucke-36476).jpg "The Parliament House in Edinburgh by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1370708).jpg "Fable of the Basilisk and the Weasel by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Citizen or Artisan")
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.jpg "Emperor by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Westminster Hall, West End, with the Courts of Chancery and Kings in Session by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Resurrection by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Three Profile Heads, One in Outline Only by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Diana as Huntress by Paulus Pontius")
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.jpg "Depiction of the Parliament of London")
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.jpg "The Woodman by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Crucifixion by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Ranulph Crew, from")
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.jpg "Albury by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Bearded Old Man in Profile, 1645 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Three Moths, Two Butterflies and a Bumble Bee by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Trojans Cremating Their Dead (State 1) by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Woman with a Handkerchief by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Sectioned Skull in Profile to Left with the Left Side of the Cranium Removed 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 "English Country Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Reverend Alexander Henderson by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Turnus Before Latinus (State 2) 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 "Wife of a Better Quality London Citizen by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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_Earl_of_Strafford_in_1641_-_(MeisterDrucke-146271).jpg "The Trial of the Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford in 1641 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Miser, from the Dance of Death, 1651 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 "The Emperor, from the Dance of Death by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "The Several Habits of English Women, from the Nobility to the Country Women, 1640 by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Winter by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Pigs and Donkeys by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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.jpg "Elephant and Camel, 17th century by Wenceslaus Hollar")
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