Boating Party in an Underground Cave

1794

Joseph Fischer

Artist, Austrian, 1769 - 1822

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper, mounted on an album sheet with a separate engraved text plate

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 51.2 x 68 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 51.4 x 68.1 cm (20 1/4 x 26 13/16 in.)
    overall (text plate): 7.8 x 68.1 cm (3 1/16 x 26 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.78.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

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

Inscriptions

upper left in text plate: Nach der Natur gezeichnet 1792 und gestochen 1794 von JFischer, in Wien; across upper center of text plate: Diese unterirdische Höle ENIODIS genant in Markgrafthum MÄHREN auf den fürstlich SALMISCHEN Gütern naechst dem DORFE OSTROV widmet / Dem Durchlauchtigen Herrn Karl Joseph des H.R.R. Fürsten, und den alten Grafen / zu Salm Reiferscheid, &&&; lower left in text plate: Verlegt bey T. Mollo und Compag. Wien; lower right: Sein unterthänigst gehorsamster Diener Joseph Fischer K.K: Hof Kammer Kupferstecher

Wikidata ID

Q76346732

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