Wenceslaus Hollar
Covent Garden
Artwork Detail
Hollar’s London still survives in parts and many visitors will recognise the buildings found in these two views of the city. An example of modern town planning, Covent
Garden was a fashionable address when it was built in the 1630s. Not long after Hollar returned to London in 1652 a vegetable market developed in the square and the aristocracy moved elsewhere – replaced by coffee houses, pubs and prostitutes.
Hollar made many drawings of London from the tower of St Mary Overy, ‘over the river’, on the south bank of the River Thames. After the Great Fire of London in 1666 Hollar created a print showing two views from the church tower – one before the fire, and one of the charred ruins.
- Title
- Covent Garden
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- circa 1647
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 145 x 252 mm
- Credit line
- Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
- Accession no
- M1982/1/3/90
- Other ID
- 909 Pennington Catalogue Raisonné
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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