Chapter House of St Paul’s cathedral
Item
Description
The Chapter House of St Paul's, with its buttresses unfinished at the top, stands in the cloister. The nave of the cathedral is depicted behind.
Title
Chapter House of St Paul’s cathedral
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslas
Date
1656
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
42 X 29 cms
Original Publication
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 143.
Source
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 143.
Notes
In the 1716 edition, there is some re-work. This includes the addition of horizontal strokes to ground shadows on the. right and vertical shading added on buttress to the left of the Chapter House door. The page number changed to 'P.128.'
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: DOMVS CAPITALARIS Sti PAVLI, a
Meridie Prospectus.
Bottom right of center: W. Hollar delineavit et sculpsit
Upper left corner: '127' and a coat of arms in a decorated cartouche with a dedication beneath by 'ALBERICUS de VERE, XXus: ejus=| dem stirpis Comes OXONII'.
Meridie Prospectus.
Bottom right of center: W. Hollar delineavit et sculpsit
Upper left corner: '127' and a coat of arms in a decorated cartouche with a dedication beneath by 'ALBERICUS de VERE, XXus: ejus=| dem stirpis Comes OXONII'.
Reproductions
Hind, Arthur M. Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century. London: Bodley Head, 1922.
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: George James, 1716, p. 168.
Subject
Cathedral
Bibliographic Citation
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 179, no. 1023
Cataloguer
Ashlinn Casey
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
