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- Museum number
- Q,6.58
- Title
- Object: A true and exact propect of the famous citty of London ... before the fire [and] ... after the sad calamitie and destruction by Fire in the yeare MDCLXVI
- Description
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Long view of London before and after the Great Fire of 1666, shown in two bands one above the other, each with its own title and with a key to the buildings along the bottom. 1666
Etching, printed from two plates joined down the centre
- Production date
- 1666
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 678 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See R. Godfrey, 'Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England', New Haven and London, 1994, no. 105.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2003/4 July-Jan, Manchester, The Lowry, The Impossible View
2009 Apr-Aug BM, P&D, Room 90, British Printed Images to 1700
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Great Fire of London 1666
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- laid down
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,6.58