Talk:Wenceslaus Hollar

Article name
I'd like to suggest that this article be moved back to "Wenceslaus Hollar," that being the name that Hollar is most widely known by, and that he used for most of his life, which he spent in England. A recent check on Google shows the form "Václav" (with or without diacritic) is used in only 2% of the mentions of Hollar, and these pages are all either WP mirrors or pages in the Czech or Slovak language. "Wencesla(u)s" is used 69% of the time (with 29% using "Wenzel"). According to WP naming conventions, "Wenceslaus" is the correct form, on several different grounds (e.g., "Only use the native spelling as an article title if it is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form"). PRiis 23:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * This is correct as per Naming conventions (common names). I will move it. The Singing Badger 15:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hollar and Shakespeare' Globe
Hollar is particularly valuable to theatre historians because he made a "life" sketch of the second Globe theatre, sometime prior to 1644 when it was pulled down, and incorporated it into his magnificent London Panorama, dated 1647. Unlike all other panoramas, this was demonstrably from a single perspective (the bell tower of Southwark Cathedral) and measurements referencing existing structures, e.g. the Tower, the site of St Paul's, and the ruins of Winchester house, provide relatively accurate sitings of buildings such as the Globe.Jim Stinson 22:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Excessive removals
It seems to me some of this solitary, no edit-summary ISP edit removes too much, & I think the Hollsteins are now confused. Johnbod (talk) 01:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

New images
Earlier this month I uploaded about 2500 new high-resolution images by Wenceslas Hollar at Commons:Category:University of Toronto Wenceslas Hollar Digital Collection. Although this article already has many images, feel free to have a look and see if any of them are useful. Dcoetzee 03:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Stockholm Panorama
It seems that Hollar was the artist of a newly rediscovered panorama of Stockholm sold att Christie's in 2009. /Urbourbo (talk) 14:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * The drawing cannot be by Hollar as he never went to Stockholm. The style is not his. It is not signed or dated. The attribution to Hollar absolutely cannot be upheld. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.37.157.86 (talk) 17:34, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, any reference on this would be greatly appreciated - as well as any facts or theories on the more likely artist. Best, /Urbourbo (talk) 08:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Atrocity propaganda during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
There's no mention here of the atrocity propaganda works he created during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which were used to justify the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. —  OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk; please &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me in replies) 20:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)