The Romanesque crypt of St Paul’s with the church of St Faith
Item
Description
View of the crypt of St Paul’s underneath the choir, which served as the parish of St Faith, to whom the altar there was dedicated. A screen is depicted deeper into the crypt after the fourth bay. After 1551, this space was leased out as a warehouse.
Title
The Romanesque crypt of St Paul’s with the church of St Faith
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Date
1657
Medium
Copper etching
Dimensions
40cm x 34cm
Original Publication
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul's Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 115.
Source
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 115.
Notes
Pennington says that the print was too large for the 1658 vol and is often found either cut or with one end folded and sometimes imperfect. In the Dugdale edition of 1716, the page number was altered to 116.
Location
St Faith parish
St Paul's cathedral
Period
eng
Early modern (late 16th-17th century)
Image Category
eng
Print
Image Source URL
Image Publisher
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Image Right Holder
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Inscriptions
Top left: medallion wreath of foliage with four flowers, with coat of arms.
Top middle: banner with ECCLESIAE PAROCHIALIS STE FIDIS | PROSPECTUS INTERIOR.
Top right: medallion wreath of foliage with four flowers, with dedication: Quo cum amplius non | erit quale olim fu | erit, notum sit | Descriptorum GVIL: BISHOP Arm | Ac quanta supersunt | qua videt ipsa fides.
Bottom of image, center: FIDEM HAEC EXHIBET ILLAM DEUM
Bottom left corner: 115
Bottom right: [Signed] W. Hollar declin et sculp
Bottom right corner: 116
Top middle: banner with ECCLESIAE PAROCHIALIS STE FIDIS | PROSPECTUS INTERIOR.
Top right: medallion wreath of foliage with four flowers, with dedication: Quo cum amplius non | erit quale olim fu | erit, notum sit | Descriptorum GVIL: BISHOP Arm | Ac quanta supersunt | qua videt ipsa fides.
Bottom of image, center: FIDEM HAEC EXHIBET ILLAM DEUM
Bottom left corner: 115
Bottom right: [Signed] W. Hollar declin et sculp
Bottom right corner: 116
Reproductions
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul's Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1716, p. 116.
Hind, Arthur M. Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century. London: Bodley Head, 1922, Plate XXXIV.
Subject
Cathedral
eng
Church
Bibliographic Citation
Cragoe, C. D. "Fabric, Tombs and Precinct, 1987-1540." In St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004. Edited by D. Keene, A. Bruns, and A. Saint, pp. 127-42. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Hind, Arthur M. Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century. London: Bodley Head, 1922.
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Cataloguer
Maryanne Kowaleski
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
