A View from St. Mary's, Southwark, Looking Towards Westminster
Date:
ca. 1638
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (13 × 30.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite and brown ink, upper center: "<East Part> West part o Southwark toward Westminster"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "23 10 | 18 12 | 120 | 3 | 63 | 228 2/1"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5548
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
buildings | trees | cityscape
Associated Places:
England | Southwark | Europe | United Kingdom | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Remembering Shakespeare (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2012-02-01 - 2012-06-04)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Searching for Shakespeare (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-06-23 - 2006-09-17)Searching for Shakespeare (National Portrait Gallery, 2006-03-02 - 2006-05-29)The Image of London (Barbican Art Gallery, 1987-08-06 - 1987-10-18)
Publications:
Tarnya Cooper, Searching for Shakespeare, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2006, pp. 92-3, no. 21, PR2929 .C66 2006 + Oversize (YCBA)Tim Fitzpatrick, Pursuing Hollar's Sketch of the Second Globe Playhouse, Performing Arts Resources, vol. 28, 2011, pp. 32-39, V2367 Full Text is also Available Online (Orbis); images are not avaiable on lineNational Gallery in Prague, Wenceslaus Hollar: Drawing, 1607-1677, [Prague], p. 299, cat. 46, NJ18.H73 V65 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 5, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Edward Rothstein, The Great Reinvention of that Sceptred Isle, New York Times, March 23, 2012, Available Online (ORBIS)