- Museum number
- 1932,1103.3
- Description
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Tangier from the SW; view from a grassy slope, below Catherine Fort, a fortified town in the mid-distance with buildings including Peterborough Tower, beyond the town the bay curving round by Old Tangier to Cape Malabata, in the distance, the Spanish Coast and Gibraltar, and on the left, a separate slip of paper showing an alteration in the lie of the land on which stands Whitehall Fort. c.1669
Pen and brown ink, with blue and brown wash and watercolour
- Production date
- 1669 ([Etched in 1673])
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres
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Width: 798 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of fourteen drawings in the BM from Hollar's official visit to Tangier in 1669. Other drawings of Tangier survive in other collections: see F.C. Springell, 'Unpublished drawings of Tangier by Hollar', in 'Burlington Magazine' CVI 1964, pp.68-74.
Lit.: S. Turner, 'Wenceslaus Hollar and Tangier in 1669', in A. Bubenik and A. Thackray eds, 'Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar', London, 2016, pp. 180-1, fig. 11
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1960, BM, Sloane Drawings, (no cat.)
1983, BM, 'Wencelaus Hollar', no. 118
1983 Jun-Aug, Prague, National Gallery, 'Wenceslaus Hollar', no. 40
2019-2020 22 Nov-23 Feb, Prague, Narodni Galerie, Wenceslaus Hollar
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Acquisition notes
- For full provenance see 1932,1103.1; Transferred from War Office to BM, Dept of MSS, 1887. Transferred to Dept of Prints & Drawings, Nov 1932.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1932,1103.3
