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Wenceslaus Hollar

View across the rooftops of Lambeth Palace

Auction Closed

January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wenceslaus Hollar

Prague 1607 - 1677 London

View across the rooftops of Lambeth Palace


Pen and brown ink and black chalk, squared in black chalk;

inscribed in pen and brown ink: Part of Lambeth houseSavoye, Somerset, Arundel house

212 by 352 mm; 8 ⅜ by 13 ⅞ in

Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield, Arbroath,
by whose trustees sold, London, Sotheby's 10 June 1931, part of lot 147 (Views of Greenwich, part of Lambeth House, Southwark and gateway of old St. Paul's etc.),
where acquired by Iolo A. Williams, Kew Gardens, Surrey,
thence by descent
I. A. Williams, 'Hollar: A Discovery by Iolo A. Williams' in The Connoisseur, vol92, (1933), pp. 318-21;
F. Sprinzels, Wenceslaus Hollar and His Drawings, Vienna 1938, p. 108, cat no. 337, reproduced fig. 273;
A. Volrábová, Wenceslaus Hollar (1606-1677) Drawings, A Catalogue Raisonné, Prague 2017, under A.III. Appendix - Missing Drawings, p. 431, no. A.III/17