Das Bretspiel (Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Board Games)

1756

Johann Esaias Nilson

Artist, German, 1721 - 1788

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving with etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Ratjen Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.5 x 26.1 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.111.189

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schuster 1936, no. 82

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1936

  • Schuster, Marianne. Johann Esaias Nilson: ein Kupferstcher des süddeutschen Rokoko. Munich, 1936, no. 82

Inscriptions

upper center: Das Bretspiel; lower center: Wer Tocadille spielt, is eifrig zu gewinnen, und wer mit Damen zieht bracht alle seine Sinnen / J. E. Nilson, inv : sculps ;et excud. A.V.

Wikidata ID

Q76439134

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