Naues Mercatoriæ Hollandicæ per Indias Occidentales (Dutch West Indiaman)

Wenceslaus Hollar

1647 · Etching; first or second state of two, the plate shows wear and the sheet is cut where the number would have appeaered · Drawings and Prints

Dutch West Indiaman; workman climbing to the main shrouds in hull of ship to left; dinghy with three men approaching the ship in the foreground; two ships being fitted out in the background to right, with wharf and river beyond.

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1647

Medium

Etching; first or second state of two, the plate shows wear and the sheet is cut where the number would have appeaered

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925