Resumen de Hollar in Holand: Drawings from the Artist's Visit to the Dutch Republic in 1634
In 1634, the Bohemian graphic artist Wenceslaus Hollar, then aged 27, visited the northern Netherlands. While he was there, he produced numerous sketched and detailed drawings of his surroundings, and several of his prints—including his series of eight Small Seascapes—are also products of this Dutch excursion. As vividly observed early topographical records, Hollar's drawings of Holland have an important historical value in addition to their intrinsic artistic properties. Neither idealized nor summarized, these realistic views of the Dutch city-, land-, and seascape bear comparison stylistically and iconographically with the work of the leading native Dutch artists of the Golden Age.
