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Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) with plates after Johann Melchior Füssli and border designs after Johann Daniel Preissler

Kupfer-Bibel, volume I, published 1731

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series Title

(1 of 4 volumes, 1987.26.1-4)

Medium

1 vol: ill: mezzotint portrait of Scheuchzer, engraving opposite title page, title page, 26 pages introductory text (unnumbered), 276 pages text (numbered 1-276), 177 engravings (numbered 1-174 with 3 additional plates); plates are engraved by various artists after Füssli; border designs are after Preissler

Dimensions

page size: 38.3 × 24.4 cm (15 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
book: 39.1 × 26.5 × 6.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 2 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Epstein Family Fund

Accession Number

1987.26.1

Artists / Makers

Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) Swiss, 1672 - 1733

Johann Melchior Füssli (artist after) Swiss, 1677 - 1736

Johann Daniel Preissler (artist after) German, 1666 - 1737

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Provenance

Bookplate of Georg August, Count of Erbach; bookplate of Kenneth Mackenzie; The Horticultural Society of New York; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, no. 324); purchased (via Quaritch Ltd.) by NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Quaritch Ltd., Bernard

Exhibition History

1988: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995, no cat.

2023: Making her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, Baltimore Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2023-2024, no. 6 (TAB. CLXV engraved by Catharina Sperling-Heckel).