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Prospect of Jerusalem

1660
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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).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Prospect of Jerusalem
  • Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Juan Bautista Villalpando (Spanish, Cordova 1552–1608 Rome)
  • 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.
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 15 1/8 × 42 1/2 in. (38.4 × 108 cm)
    cut to the borderlines all around
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.2.181
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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