A Lady in a Long Dress, 1780

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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 7]

Medium

etching

Dimensions

mount: 48.8 × 33.8 cm (19 3/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 19.2 × 13.3 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.265

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Martin Schongauer (artist after) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in image, lower center: 1472[?]; in plate, below image, at right: No 7.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Martin Schoen.; in plate, below image, at left: E Museo Prauniano.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1780. [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