St Paul's from the south showing the spire
Item
Description
St Paul's viewed from the south. The spire appears as it was before being struck by lightning and burned in 1561.
Title
St Paul's from the south showing the spire
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslas
Date
1657
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
26 × 35.1 cm
Original Publication
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 152.
Source
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: Thomas Warren, 1658, p. 152.
Notes
See Pennington catalog entry 1017 for full details on the various editions of the
engraving and the Latin quotations incuded. He also cites a letter from Rev. Thomas
Barlow to Dugdale expressing appreciation of Hollar’s work and consent to paying the
£5 that Dugdale is charging him for the dedication.
In the Monasticon version, the '133' is erased and '297' is added in the lower left corner. Additionally, there is some re-work, including diagonal shading added on ground between choir and South transept.
In the 1716 edition of St Paul's, an engraved copy in the same direction by John Harris is included.
An article in Antiquities Journal XLIII, 1963, pp. 128-32 suggests that Hollar's design of the spire may have come from a drawing done by William Cole in 1654.
engraving and the Latin quotations incuded. He also cites a letter from Rev. Thomas
Barlow to Dugdale expressing appreciation of Hollar’s work and consent to paying the
£5 that Dugdale is charging him for the dedication.
In the Monasticon version, the '133' is erased and '297' is added in the lower left corner. Additionally, there is some re-work, including diagonal shading added on ground between choir and South transept.
In the 1716 edition of St Paul's, an engraved copy in the same direction by John Harris is included.
An article in Antiquities Journal XLIII, 1963, pp. 128-32 suggests that Hollar's design of the spire may have come from a drawing done by William Cole in 1654.
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
Upper left corner: '133'
Upper left: heavy frame with: ECCLESIAE PAVLINAE PROSPECTvs │QVALIS OLIM
ERAT, PRIVSQVAM EIVS PY- │ -RAMIS, E COELO TACTA CONFLAGAVERAT
[followed by two lines of Lucan bginning ‘Effigiem Templi’, and four lines from Horace
beginning ‘Delicta majorum’.
Upper right corner: Wreath with dedication by 'THOMAS BARLOW…' Proto- Bibl: Bodlianus | Oxon:'
Bottom near center: 'W. Hollar sculp: 1657'
Upper left: heavy frame with: ECCLESIAE PAVLINAE PROSPECTvs │QVALIS OLIM
ERAT, PRIVSQVAM EIVS PY- │ -RAMIS, E COELO TACTA CONFLAGAVERAT
[followed by two lines of Lucan bginning ‘Effigiem Templi’, and four lines from Horace
beginning ‘Delicta majorum’.
Upper right corner: Wreath with dedication by 'THOMAS BARLOW…' Proto- Bibl: Bodlianus | Oxon:'
Bottom near center: 'W. Hollar sculp: 1657'
Reproductions
Dugdale, William. The History of St Paul’s Cathedral. London: George James, 1716, p. 175.
Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum. Vol III. London, 1673.
Subject
Cathedral
Bibliographic Citation
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: University Press, 2010, p. 177-178, no 1017
Cataloguer
Ashlinn Casey
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
