Document: Title page: Dutch Ships, Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian -1647

The importance of the ship building industry in the Netherlands during the 17th Century cannot be overstated.    The innovations created  there helped the Dutch to become the most important trading country on earth for several decades.    

Metropolitan Museum of Art Summary: Two men standing seen from behind looking at title for series of Dutch ships inscribed on stern of warship in dock in the centre; elderly man seated on barrels of canons smoking pipe on the left sailors, ships, crates, anchors, casks and wharves on left and right.

Title: Title page: Dutch Ships

Series/Portfolio: Navium Variæ Figuræ et Formæ (Dutch Ships): Twelve plates

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

Date: 1647

Medium: Etching; first state of five

Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 5/16 in. (14.3 × 23.7 cm)

Classification: Prints