Exhibition dedicated to etcher Václav Hollar at the Prague Postal Museum - Special postmark / Exposition consacrée au graveur Václav Hollar au musée postal de Prague - TAD spécial
Hollar a travaillé dans de nombreux pays d'Europe (en Angleterre en particulier) et a représenté avec une infime minutie de nombreux paysages, plans de villes (Londres, Prague...), portraits, natures mortes, illustrations des fables d'Ésope... http://timbredujura.blogspot.com/2017/06/exhibition-dedicated-to-etcher-vaclav.html
--
From 31 May to 1 October 2017, the Prague Postal Museum is organizing a new exhibition entitled "Václav Hollar: engravings and stamps" ("Václav Hollar: Rytiny a známky"), in which works of arts of this famous etcher and engraver (born in 1607, died in 1677), one of the greatest masters of etching in Europe in the 17th century, are exhibited in parallel with Czechoslovakian and Czech stamps on which they were reproduced (often engraved by Bedřich Housa).
Hollar has worked in many European countries (England in particular) and has depicted with a meticulous minuteness many landscapes, city plans (London, Prague...), portraits, still lifes, illustrations of the Aesop's Fables... http://timbredujura.blogspot.com/2017/06/exhibition-dedicated-to-etcher-vaclav.html
--
Eric Contesse: http://timbredujura.blogspot.com/
--