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“Long View” of London from Southwark dress: English woman's simple dress, 17th century Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo 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. Iliad
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Also Known As Wenzel Hollar • Vaclav 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
Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo
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.
Iliad
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