September
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.5454
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1628–, *September* is etching that captures the quiet rhythms of early autumn along a riverside landscape. The collaborative work between Wenceslaus Hollar, a skilled Bohemian printmaker renowned for his precise topographical views, and Jan van de Velde II, a Dutch artist celebrated for his atmospheric scenes, reflects the cross-cultural exchange of printmaking traditions in the seventeenth century. The medium of etching, with its capacity for delicate linework and tonal subtlety, was ideally suited to rendering the reflective water, clustered houses, and figures engaged in daily ac...
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Jan van de Velde II · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...