Wenceslaus Hollar

Czech cartographer, painter of nature, portrait painter and engraver (1607-1677)

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Field of work
Etching

Images from the collections

Images by Wenceslaus Hollar

119 images from works
  • A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A fox is pursued by two dogs while a cat escapes by climbing a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • Head and shoulders of a man, seen from the left, showing the muscles of the neck, chest and shoulder. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci, 1651.
  • A tiger lies in the foreground shot by an archer who appears between the trees; illustration for a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching by W. Hollar, 1668.
  • The dance of death: the old woman. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein the younger.
  • John Tradescant I. Etching by W. Hollar, 1656, after E. (?) de Critz.
  • Bust of a lean male, looking down to his lower right. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci, 1648.
  • Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Phyllis Johnson, a prostitute with her name and price. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A large paeony (Paeonia species) surrounded by various flowers and moths. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
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Works from the collections

130 works

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Frequent collaborators

Aesop
John Ogilby
Leonardo da Vinci
Hans Holbein the Younger
Prostitutes
Plants, Ornamental
Zoology - Pre-Linnean works
Botany - Pre-Linnean works
Flowers
Insecta
Animals
Botany
Zoology
Rosaceae