Vindesorium

Location

Country: Nepal
City: Kathmandu
Place: British Embassy

Joris Hoefnagel, draughtsman and engraver of topographical and natural history subjects, was born in the Netherlands. He travelled widely and visited England in 1568, possibly on commission from the Antwerp publishers Braun and Hogenberg. His drawing of Nonsuch Palace in the British Museum is one of the few reliable records of this great Tudor building demolished in the late 17th century.

Places

England, Windsor, Berkshire

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Joris Hoefnagel (1542/5 - 1600/1)

Title

Vindesorium

Date

1595

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from the parker Gallery, September 1972

GAC number

9740