Prospect of Jerusalem

Wenceslaus Hollar|Juan Bautista Villalpando

1660 · Etching; margin where Overton's address would have appeared has been trimmed off this impression and so the state cannot be determined. · Drawings and Prints

Prospect of Jerusalem — Wenceslaus Hollar|Juan Bautista Villalpando

View of Jerusalem, seen from Gethsemene, just south of the city's battlemented walls, with a compass on a square stone in the lower centre, and two insets, a key and a map of old Jerusalem as a bird's eye view, in the upper corners; illustration to John Ogilby's (publisher) 'The Holy Bible Containing the Bookes of the Old & New Testament' (Cambridge: 1660).

Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Juan Bautista Villalpando
Date
1660
Medium
Etching; margin where Overton's address would have appeared has been trimmed off this impression and so the state cannot be determined.
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1920

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