Prospect of Jerusalem

Prospect of Jerusalem

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of Jerusalem, seen from Gethsemene, just south of the city's battlemented walls, with a compass on a square stone in the lower centre, and two insets, a key and a map of old Jerusalem as a bird's eye view, in the upper corners; illustration to John Ogilby's (publisher) 'The Holy Bible Containing the Bookes of the Old & New Testament' (Cambridge: 1660).

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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