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Fireworks at Hemissem
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
c. 1650
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 41.4 cm (9 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Bohemia
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Rosenthal Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Wenceslaus Hollar’s nocturnal scene of innovative pyrotechnics vividly marks the culmination of a series of four prints depicting triumphal processions and other festivities held for the Imperial Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Emperor, the Count of Thurn and Taxis, and his wife on their visit to Hemissem, the home of Alexander Roelants, Postmaster General of the Netherlands.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
