St. Pauls Cathedral on fire during the Great Fire of 1666
Item
Description
St. Pauls Cathedral on fire as viewed from the south. Flames are coming through the roof and clouds of smoke are visible in the sky.
Title
St. Pauls Cathedral on fire during the Great Fire of 1666
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Date
1666
Medium
Copper Etching
Dimensions
Image: 61x100 cm; Plate: 64x102 cm
Original Publication
William Sancroft, Lex ignea, London: Timothy Garthwait, 1666. ii; from the same year for Garthwait and for R. Pawlett. iii and iv; R. Allstree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, (1671).
Source
William Sancroft, Lex ignea, London: Timothy Garthwait, 1666. ii; from the same year for Garthwait and for R. Pawlett. iii and iv; R. Allstree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, (1671).
Notes
A scroll is added around the inscription for the second edition. Diagonals added going from right to left and the signature was made unreadable for the third edition. Clouds entirely reworked for the fourth edition.
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
Lower Left: W. Hollar A˚ 1666.
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 1028.
Cataloguer
Peter Orlowski
Coverage
Medieval London
Type
Etching
image
Still Image
