Wenceslaus Hollar
1607-1677
The Large View of Passau
1636
4 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (108 x 273 mm)
Pen and black ink, with gray, gray-blue, and brown-pink wash, on paper.
1986.36
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
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."
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Rawlinson, Dr., former owner.
Springell, Francis C., former owner.
Wrightsman, Jayne, donor.
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.
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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