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Wenceslaus Hollar
[Bohemian Baroque Era Engraver, 1607-1677]
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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 NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Muff with a Brocade Band, etching, 1647
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
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) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
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
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
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
2 works online when last checked
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(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)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Online Archive of California
The Cathedral at Antwerp
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Wenceslaus Hollar 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England
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