Schrifften
1777-1778
Salomon Gessner
Artist, Swiss, 1730 - 1788
Artwork overview
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Medium
illustrated book with 20 engravings and early nineteenth-century polished calf binding, spine gilded in compartments, inner gilded dentelles, and marbled endpapers
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall size (volume closed): 26.5 x 21 cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
page size: 25.8 x 19 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2000.138.1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Furstenberg Collection, Donaueschingen, Germany; (Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, London); (H.D. Lyon, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.
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