drawing
- Museum number
- 1850,0223.196
- Description
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Castle of Hradčany (Hradschin), Prague; the circular walls of the castle with towers and overhanging wooden buildings. c.1636
Pen and brown ink, touched with watercolour, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1636
- Dimensions
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Height: 137 millimetres
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Width: 282 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Formerly attributed to anonymous French XVIIc and to Wenceslaus Hollar. Martin Royalton-Kisch (pencil annotation on mount) suggests a possible attribution to Jacob Hoefnagel (?).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1958 Apr, BM, Eight centuries of landscape ... water-colours, case 16
1997 May-Sep, Prague, Castle, Rudolf II
2022 17 Mar-28 Aug, BM, G90, 'Printmaking in Prague: art from the court of Rudolf II'
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0223.196