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Wenceslaus Hollar

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Engraved portrait of John Booker holding a book, with an armillary sphere, quadrant and celestial medallion beside him.

John Booker. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper after Hollar

Etched oval portrait of a curly-haired man with a scene of liquid poured before a crowd, a sun, and a winged trumpeter.

Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark robe and white collar holding a small book.

William Oughtred. Line engraving by [F. S.] after W. Hollar

Etching of robed figures and armed men with torches and staves confronting a haloed figure in a wooded landscape.

Jesus Confronting His Detractors

Etching of Jesus kneeling on the Mount of Olives as an angel appears above and armed men with torches approach.

Jesus on the Mount of Olives

Etching of armed men with torches seizing a robed figure before a rocky landscape and a tree at right.

Jesus Taken

Etching of Jesus before Pilate, with a robed figure on a raised platform before a stone building and onlookers below.

Jesus before Pilate

Engraving of a seated high priest on a dais facing a bearded figure in an arched hall, with soldiers at left and women at a w

Jesus again before Caiaphas

Etching of a religious scene with a mitred clergyman, a robed figure with a staff, onlookers, and a German inscription banner

Jesus before Caiaphas

Etched interior showing a seated elder in a niche with a bound figure before him, surrounded by robed onlookers and candlesti

Jesus before Annas

Engraving of a seated judge washing his hands before an attendant, with a crowd and cross on the right.

The Washing of Hands

Etching of a bound man tied to a column being whipped by two men in an arched classical hall, with hooded onlookers.

The Scourging

Engraving of a crowned seated figure mocked by attendants in an arched interior with a large shell niche.

The Mocking

Etching of a kneeling figure carrying a cross past soldiers and a crowd, with a walled town and towers in the background.

Carrying the Cross

Etched print of the Crucifixion with three crosses, mourners and soldiers in the foreground and a town in the distance.

The Crucifixion

Etching of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure shown in an arched niche above a balustrade, with robed figures and staves in the fore

Ecce Homo

Etching of mourners lowering a body into a stone tomb beneath a rocky cliff with bare trees above.

The Entombment

Engraving of two oval portraits of the Tradescants above a carved stone tomb in a churchyard.

John Tradescant I and John Tradescant II. Stipple engraving by N. Smith, 1793, after W. Hollar

Pencil study of a bearded classical male bust above a stone pedestal inscribed with Latin text.

Studie nach einem bärtigen antiken Männerkopf, darunter ein Altar mit lateinischer Inschrift

Antike Aschenurne, darauf stehend antiker Frauenkopf, darunter Brustbild einer Frau im Kostüm des 17. Jahrhunderts

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armor and lace collar, labeled Thomas, Earle of Arundell, Earle Marshall of Englan

Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel

Engraved print of a seated man in a ruff and feathered hat within an arched niche, with Latin inscriptions below.

Francis Bacon in a Niche

Engraved portrait of a man in armour with a lace collar and curled hair, hand extended, caption below.

Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Stafford

Etched oval portrait of a young woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and lace collar, with an inscription below.

Lady Catherine Howard

Etched oval portrait of a long-haired man in dark dress before a flag and distant city skyline, inscribed Nil Admirari.

Sir John Wildman

Etched self-portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar holding a small panel of a woman, with a city skyline and drawing tools beside him.

Self-Portrait, from "Image de divers hommes: The true effigies of the most eminent Painters"

17th century

Engraving of the risen Christ rising above a rocky tomb with women and sleeping soldiers below.

The Resurrection

Etching of a standing woman in period dress holding a footed chalice, with a landscape behind her.

Woman holding a chalice

mid 18th-19th century

Etching of a woman's head turned left, eyes lowered, with a high bun, curled hair and a fur-trimmed collar.

Weiblicher Kopf, nach links herabblickend ("Hollars Frau")

Etching of a woman seen from behind with an upswept hairstyle, curled locks, pearl necklace and fur-trimmed collar.

Weiblicher Kopf, nach links, von hinten gesehen ("Hollars Frau")