St Paul's Interior. Choir Screen
Item
Description
A view of the steps leading up from the nave to the stone choir screen. The vaulting of the choir can be seen above the screen.
Title
St Paul's Interior. Choir Screen
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslas.
Date
1658
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
33cms x 41cms
Original Publication
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 183.
Source
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658.
Notes
In the 1716 edition, '168' is erased and replaced by '146'. There is also some re-work; e.g. rectangular cross-hatching on left hand vaulting of choir.
Location
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 center: Partis exterioris Chori, ab Occidente | prospectus
Bottom: Me Miseram? prosto effigies velut ebria Trojæ ... dissoluor in vmbram | - Dabit Deus his quoq finem Virg: Æneid: Lib 2. Lower left corner: W. Hollar delineauit et sculp:
Upper left corner: Wreath with a coat of arms
Upper right corner: Wreath with a dedication by 'HENR: COMPTON'
'168'
Bottom: Me Miseram? prosto effigies velut ebria Trojæ ... dissoluor in vmbram | - Dabit Deus his quoq finem Virg: Æneid: Lib 2. Lower left corner: W. Hollar delineauit et sculp:
Upper left corner: Wreath with a coat of arms
Upper right corner: Wreath with a dedication by 'HENR: COMPTON'
'168'
Reproductions
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: George James, 1716, p. 189.
Hind, Arthur M. Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century. London: Bodley Head, 1922.
Subject
Cathedral
Bibliographic Citation
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge UP, 2010, p. 179.
Cataloguer
Ashlinn Casey
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
