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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)
Prospect of Windsor Castle, from the North 1667
Etching | 19.7 x 35.8 cm (platemark) | RCIN 700092
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77)
Prospect of Windsor Castle, from the North 1667
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A view of Windsor Castle from across the river, with houses along the riverbank below; a large barge loaded with logs in the centre foreground; on the left a rowing boat with 2 oarsmen, carrying people and their luggage.
The title is in a scroll in the centre above the image; the different parts of the castle are numbered and the key is below the image with numbers from 1 to 10.
Lettered below the key: on the left Christophr Wren delineavit and on the right W. Hollar fecit 1667.
Lettered below the key, on the far left: p.134. This number refers to Elias Ashmole's 'The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter' (London: 1672, p.134), 1667. -
Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Etching
Measurements
19.7 x 35.8 cm (platemark)
22.2 x 37.5 cm (sheet of paper)
18.4 x 34.9 cm (image)
Markings
watermark: Its is a coat of arm with the name A DURANT underneath, which resembles n.661 in E. Heawood, Monument Chartae papyraceae, 1950. [lower left]
