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Object Type: print
Museum number: Q,4.320
Title: Series: Prospectus aliquot locorum in diversis Provincis...
Description: Mechlin / Mechelen; man carrying sack over his shoulders seen from behind walking along road, gabled house at right and willow tree in the foreground, in the background, bridge next to tide mill of the St Bernard's Abbey. c.1643 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar
School/style: British; Bohemian
Production date: 1664
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 82 millimetres; Width: 129 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See comment for Q,4.311.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (1818.I) (Hollar); Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (729)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bridge
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Mechelen
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Q,4.320

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