East end of the interior of St Paul's cathedral
Item
Description
The view of St Mary's chapel behind the high altar in St Paul's cathederal. The seven lancet windows and the rose window are visible.
Title
East end of the interior of St Paul's cathedral
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Date
1658
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
Image: 294x209 cm; Plate: 304x213 cm
Original Publication
William Dugdale, The History of St Paul’s Cathedral (1658), ii, from edn of 1716.
Source
William Dugdale, The History of St Paul’s Cathedral (1658), ii, from edn of 1716.
Notes
Pennington notes that an inscription in the top left corner (170) was erased and chaged to 148 in the second edition. Some reworking was done for the second edition, an example of which was the heavy vertical strokes at the base of the first column on the right.
Location
St Paul's cathedral
St Mary's chapel
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
Below: ORIENTALIS PARTIS ECCL: CATH: S: PAVLI, PROSPECTVS INTERIOR
Lower Left W. Hollar Fecit Upper Left 170.
Upper Left and Right Corners: Coats of Arms contained within wreaths and a dedication by GUIL. WALTER | primogenitus Guil; | Walter de SARESDEN
Lower Left W. Hollar Fecit Upper Left 170.
Upper Left and Right Corners: Coats of Arms contained within wreaths and a dedication by GUIL. WALTER | primogenitus Guil; | Walter de SARESDEN
Reproductions
Arthur M. Hind, Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century (1922), 193.
Subject
eng
Cathedral
Bibliographic Citation
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); item number 1027.
Cataloguer
Peter Orlowski
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
