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Object Type
Museum number: 1864,0611.434
Title: Object: London [the long view]
Description: Sheet 2 of the 'Long View of London' showing the area of the Strand from Salisbury House to Baynard's Castle, with the Globe theatre in the foreground; three cherubs in the sky with books and one holding a caduceus. 1647 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar; Published by: Cornelis Danckerts I
School/style: British; Bohemian
Production date: 1647
Production place: Published in: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 466 millimetres; Width: 390 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For comment see 1864,0813.331. Hollar copied some of the labels from Claes Jansz Visscher's 1616 panorama (Hollstein 135) with a notable mistake. The circular building labelled "The Globe" is in fact the Hope Theatre, replacing the bear-baiting building which was demolished in 1614, and the larger circular building labelled "Beere bayting" is the second Globe Theatre of 1614, replacing Shakespeare's building which burned in 1613.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (954.I) (Hollar); Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1014.I); Hind 1922 / Wenceslaus Hollar and his views of London and Windsor in the seventeenth century (16)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2012 London, BM, Shakespeare
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1864,0611.434
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