Thistle with Insects

c. 1755

Johann Christoph Dietzsch

Artist, German, 1710 - 1769

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache on black prepared vellum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of J. Carter Brown

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.6 x 20.6 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.88.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

L & R Entwistle and Co LTd., London; J. Carter Brown, Washington, D.C., 1992; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 56.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in brown ink: 5130

Wikidata ID

Q64581892


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