Nave of St Paul's Cathedral
Item
Description
The nave of St Paul's cathedral, including the choir and choir screen.
Title
Nave of St Paul's Cathedral
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Date
1658
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
Image: 392x345 cm; Plate: 398x353 cm
Original Publication
William Dugdale, The History of St Paul’s Cathedral (1658), ii, from end of 1716.
Source
William Dugdale, The History of St Paul’s Cathedral (1658), ii, from end of 1716.
Notes
Hollar makes a reference to the state of the roof and the risk of the collapse of the ceiling when he was sketching. This is due to the damage done to the church during a fire in 1561 which also caused the collapse of the spire. Damage received by military action did not compare to the damage of a century of neglect.
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
Below: Sit rediviva mater Ecclesia, et, percant Sacrilegi … tanquam sacrum Religionis Christianae Moumentum in aternum sufflaminetur, | Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemus, hujus Ecclesiae delineator it olim admirator, memoriam sic perseruauit, A˚ 1658.
Top Center: NAVIS ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS S. PAVLI. | PROSPECTVS INTERIOR.
Top Center: NAVIS ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS S. PAVLI. | PROSPECTVS INTERIOR.
Reproductions
Arthur M. Hind, Wenseslas Hollar and His Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century, (1922), 191.
Subject
Cathedral
Bibliographic Citation
Pennington, R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslas Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Cataloguer
Peter Orlowski
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
