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Also Known As Vaclav Hollar • Wenzel Hollar
Born July 23, 1607 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died March 25, 1677 (aged 69) • London • England

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“Long View” of London from Southwark
dress: English woman's simple dress, 17th century
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Hackney carriage, detail of an engraving by W. Hollar, 1646; in the British Museum
Dugdale, detail of an engraving by Wenzel Hollar, frontispiece to the first edition of Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656
William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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