Art Institute of Chicago
Fireworks at Hemissem
Wenceslaus Hollar
- Date
- c. 1650
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Bohemia
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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