- Title:
- A View from St. Mary's, Southwark, Looking Towards Westminster
- Date:
- ca. 1638
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (13 × 30.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite and brown ink, upper center: "<East Part> West part o Southwark toward Westminster"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "23 10 | 18 12 | 120 | 3 | 63 | 228 2/1"
Fragment, unidentified.
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5548
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buildings | cityscape | trees
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | London | Southwark | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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The Image of London (Barbican Art Gallery, 1987-08-06 - 1987-10-18)
Searching for Shakespeare (National Portrait Gallery, 2006-03-02 - 2005-05-29)
Searching for Shakespeare (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-06-23 - 2006-09-17)
Remembering Shakespeare (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2012-02-01 - 2012-06-04)
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Tim Fitzpatrick, Pursuing Hollar's Sketch of the Second Globe Playhouse, Performing Arts Resources, vol. 28, 2011, pp. 32-39, V2367 Full Text is also Available Online (Orbis); images are not avaiable on line
National Gallery in Prague, Wenceslaus Hollar: Drawing, 1607-1677, [Prague], p. 299, cat. 46, NJ18.H73 V65 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Edward Rothstein, The Great Reinvention of that Sceptred Isle, New York Times, March 23, 2012, Available Online (ORBIS)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10185
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Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607–1677, Bohemian, A View from St. Mary's, Southwark, Looking Towards Westminster, ca. 1638
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