Self-Portrait with a Spider in the Window, 1758

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.3 x 17.8 cm (9 3/16 x 7 in.)

sheet: 25.2 x 19.8 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wessely 1887, no. 103

Accession Number

1991.132.3

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: George Friderich Schmidt, / Se ipse fecit aqua forti Petropol 1758.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 11360 26; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: Nr 103; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 443

Bibliography

1815: Jacoby 1815, undesc.

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 112, ii/ii.

1880: Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 62.

1887: Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Georg Frederic Schmidt. Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radirungen. Hamburg, 1887.