Document: Dutch East Indiaman, Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian - 1647

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Document ID
MET-25.83.7
Description

Dutch East Indiaman, Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian - 1647

Document Date
1647

Met Museum Dutch East Indiaman Hollar 1647

Translation
Translation

Metropolitan Museum of Art Summary: Dutch East Indiaman; six men on a raft caulking the planks of hull of vessel in harbour, with carpenters at work on the deck; fully fitted-out ship careened in the water to right, with sailors on a raft treating the under-water timber among clouds of black smoke.

Title: Dutch East Indiaman

Series/Portfolio: Navium Variæ Figuræ et Formæ (Dutch Ships): Twelve plates including the title (New Hollstein 956-967)

Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)  Date: 1647

Medium: Etching; first state of two

Dimensions: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 9 5/16 in. (14.2 × 23.7 cm)

References

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain

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