Beÿ Brüssels (Brussels), from "European Views"

Wenceslaus Hollar

ca. 1643 · Etching, first state of two · Drawings and Prints

View in the Belgium. A man with a load on his back seated in the foreground seen from behind, facing battlemented wall with towers running over uneven ground from right to left; two men walking towards Brussels in the middle and cottages among trees at left.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

ca. 1643

Medium

Etching, first state of two

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917