biography
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Hollar, Wenzel or Wenceslaus
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1607–77)
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| biography:
| Engraver and etcher, born in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied engraving in Frankfurt, and worked in Germany and Holland before settling in England (1652), where he was appointed ‘His Majesty's designer’. He produced two magnificent plates of costume, entitled Severall Habits of English Women (1640) and Theatrum Mulierum (1643), as well as maps and panoramas, etc, preserved in the British Museum and in the Royal Library, Windsor. His panoramic view of London from Southwark after the Great Fire is one of the most valuable topographical records of the 17th-c. |
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