Wenceslaus Hollar Works Online
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Original works by Wenceslaus Hollar available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Muff with a Brocade Band, etching, 1647
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Many works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Stellion Insulting Ceres, 1646
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Wenceslaus Hollar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Wenceslaus Hollar at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Shell (Murex brandaris), ca.1645
Wenceslaus Hollar at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
United Kingdom Parliament, London
9 works online
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
8 works online
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Divers Prospect in and around Tangier, 1669
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Tootehill Fields, 1669
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Charles II
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Ceres and Stellio, 1646
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Wenceslaus Hollar in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Muff mit Brokatband, etching, 1647
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Wenceslaus Hollar at the The British Museum, London, UK
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 476
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wenceslaus Hollar in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Online Archive of California
The Cathedral at Antwerp
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Wenceslaus Hollar 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Biography of the artist
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England
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