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Born in Prague, Hollar was the artist/ engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666. His work is an invaluable record of London during times of catastrophe, and political and social change.
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The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. It is a carefully researched factual account, but she has also employed her novelist's skill to form an intricate whole - a life's texture which is also an absorbing and occasionally tragic story.
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