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Jeremias Wachsmuth

Allegory of Water

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Medium

etching with engraving on pink prepared laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 16.2 x 12.9 cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2005.19.5

Artists / Makers

Jeremias Wachsmuth (artist) German, 1711 - 1771

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Inscription

lower left center in plate: I Wachsmuth fe.; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Aqua

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

von Baeyer, Emanuel

Bibliography

2004: Emanuel von Baeyer. Expressive Baroque: Prints and Drawings from Central Europe 1700 - 1800. London, 2004: no. 15.

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