Wenceslaus Hollar
Execution of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

Artwork Detail
Strafford’s fall undermined the king’s position and
encouraged those who had opposed the monarch’s
personal rule of the preceding years. The public revelled
in the unpopular earl’s demise and gathered in large
numbers to watch the spectacle of his execution on
Tower Hill in London.
Hollar almost never recorded scenes of violence,
but this image would have been a popular record of
an important political event. As with the Trial, it was
published again in Frankfurt with German inscriptions.
- Title
- Execution of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1641
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 265 x 340 mm
- Credit line
- Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
- Accession no
- M1982/1/3/40
- Other ID
- 552 Pennington Catalogue Raisonné
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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