Collection des Tableaux en Gouache et des Dessins de Salomon Gessner

1811

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

Johann Heinrich Lips

Engraver, Swiss, 1758 - 1817

Medium

bound volume with 25 etched illustrations by Kolbe and 1 engraved portrait on title by Lips
Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Dimensions

book: 54 × 42 × 1 cm (21 1/4 × 16 9/16 × 3/8 in.)
Accession

2012.92.42
Catalogue Raisonné

Martens 1976, nos. 282-307

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Markus Nass, Berlin); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased January 30, 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: nos. 282-307.

Inscriptions

first free endpaper upper right in graphite: 2/513 (1-25)

Markings

Two labels applied to cover: 45 (circled); no/122/52 (122 are struck through)