Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader English MS 883
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Reference Number:
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English MS 883
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Parent Work Title:
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Collection of Drawings by Hollar
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Hollar book of drawings
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Creator:
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Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Date Created:
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17th century
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Description:
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Scrapbook of a collection of sketches by Wenceslaus Hollar. The sketches are of various places in Europe, including London, Prague, Amsterdam and Cologne. There are some sketches on loose scraps of paper and some have been stuck onto the leaves of the scrapbook. There is no chronological order to the sketches and amongst the original drawings is an etching, a portrait of J. Banfi Huniades. Bound in vellum. Some loose leaves from the manuscript are being kept separately in a folder.
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Subject:
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Architecture
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Scrapbooks
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Technique Used:
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Etching (printing process)
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Technique Used:
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Drawing (image-making)
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Medium:
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Pencil
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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17th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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Germany
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Places Covered:
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England
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Places Covered:
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Czech Republic
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Places Covered:
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Netherlands
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Pennington, Richard 'A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677', Cambridge University Press, 1982
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2010-06-29
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2014-02
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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