- Museum number
- Gg,2.247
- Description
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Rheineck from the north west; view looking up the Rhine in mid-stream, with Lord Arundel's barge flying a flag with the cross of St George in the foreground, on the right, at the summit of a wooded hill, the castle of Rheineck, and further off, l, also crowning a hill, the ruins of Hammerstein, in the distance, Andernach. 1636
Pen and black ink, with blue-grey wash, touched with red
- Production date
- 1636
- Dimensions
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Height: 106 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From Stainton & White 1987:
In 1636 Hollar was commissioned by the Earl of Arundel to join his suite 'en route' for the imperial court in Vienna, and to make a series of views recording the journey up the Rhine and Danube. In May of the same year, Arundel refers to the artist "Wth me who drawes and eches Printes in stronge water quickely, and wth a pretty spirit" (M. Hervey, 'Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel', Cambridge, 1921, p. 366). Hollar produced a large number of views, for the most part in the same medium (see Stainton & White 1987 , cat. no. 67). This one, looking up the River Rhine, shows Arundel's barge, flying the cross of St George, in the centre foreground. He also made an etching of the Rhine near Rheineck, but seen from further downstream (Pennington 743).
(Additional)
This is a worked up version of a sheet now in the Hollar sketchbook at the John Rylands Library (Ms 883, fol. 16v; Volrábová II/12). In this second iteration greater attention is given to the castle, which is enlarged and given more space above, and on Arundel's barge, now placed in the immediate foreground.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1963 Sep-Nov, Manchester CAG, Hollar, no.D33
1986/7 Nov-Jan, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz, no. 21
1987 June-Aug, BM Hilliard to Hogarth no.66
1987 Sept-Nov, New Haven, Hilliard to Hogarth
1992 Sept-Oct, Bonn, Rheinische Mus & Koblenz, Mittelrhein Mus, no. 35
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Gg,2.247
