With apologies for the gap since the last post here, I thought I'd just let you know about a small upcoming exhibition, which follows on neatly from the success of London: A Life in Maps.
From 20th July a new display, Hollar as a Mapmaker, will be viewable in the Maps Reading Room lobby here at the British Library in St Pancras. The display celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Czech artist and etcher Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Best known for his landscapes, portraits, fashion plates and depictions of antiquities, Hollar also had a lifelong love of maps and earned a living by etching them. It's only a small exhibition with an accompanying leaflet, but it will feature some of the most outstanding but little-known decorative examples of his work, which incorporate views and portraits. It will also include his anguished cartographical portrayal of the English and Czech civil wars and what is perhaps the most minute panorama and bird’s-eye view of London ever to be created (links are to examples on our Images Online website).
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