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A Jewish Woman from Thrace
Wenceslaus Hollar
1644
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Wenceslaus Hollar (also known as Wenzel Hollar and Václav Hollar) was one of the most prolific and accomplished artists of the seventeenth century, with an estimated four hundred drawings and three thousand etchings to his name. They include views, portraits, ships, religious subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still lifes. He was also known for his topographical works and his maps. Born in Prague, he worked there as well as in Strasbourg, Mainz, Koblenz, Vienna, and England.
My mother often sent me shopping to 18th Avenue (not a far distance, but for a kid it was unfamiliar territory), the district of Middle Eastern groceries, whose shopkeepers were…
With you, it is not impossible to define
creatures and things with the simplicity
of the fish whose scales streak the sea with blue and gold,
Or of the sea itself that swells with the gracefulness of…