Seascape, 1782-1785

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 33]

Medium

etching and aquatint

Dimensions

mount: 48.5 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16 × 23 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.291

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Willem van de Velde the Younger (artist after) Dutch, 1633 - 1707

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Guillaume van de Velde. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 33 / M. Cath. Prestel Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 4.