Wenceslaus Hollar

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Wenceslaus Hollar

1607-1677

The Large View of Passau

1636

Pen and black ink, with gray, gray-blue, and brown-pink wash, on paper.

4 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (108 x 273 mm)

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.

1986.36

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed by the artist at left center in black ink, "Inn flu: Marie hilff Cputzinin Innstatt"; at center, "PASSAU Danubius flu; Iltz flu: NIderhaussen:"; at right center: "Oberhaussen"; inscribed, signed, and dated at lower right, "Iltzstatt WH. 12 Junii, 1636". Inscribed by Jonathan Richardson, Sr., on verso in pen and brown ink, "TH.2./R.I."

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2983); his sale, London, Covent Garden, "Cock," 22 January 1745, part of lot 45; Dr. Rawlinson; Francis C. Springell, Prague and Keswick; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 June 1986, lot 8, repr.

Associated names:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Rawlinson, Dr., former owner.
Springell, Francis C., former owner.
Wrightsman, Jayne, donor.

Bibliography:

Francis Sprinzels, "Wenceslaus Hollar and His Drawings, Vienna, 1938, no. 248, pl. 41.
G. Vertue, Index, Vertue I-V, The Walpole Society, no. 29, 1940-42, cited in Index to "Notebooks"; Exhibition of Drawings and Etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar, Czechoslovak Institute, London, 1942, no. 23.
Francis C. Springell, Connoisseur & Diplomat, London, 1963, no. LXX, 184, pl. 36.
Hans Mielke, Wenzel Hollar Radierungen und Zeichnungen aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1984, under no. 58.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 348.

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