Wilhelmine: Poeme Heroi-Comique Traduit de L'Allemand...par M. Huber
1769
Artist, German, 1737 - 1773
Artist, German, 1742 - 1803
Author, German, 1738 - 1817
Translator, 1727 - 1804
Artist After, German, 1717 - 1799
Johann Michael Stock and Christian Gottlieb Geyser, after Adam Friedrich Oeser, Moritz August von Thummel (author), Michel Huber (translator)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 7 etched and engraved illustrations, including the frontispiece, and 13 etched and engraved vignettes
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 15.5 x 10 x 2 cm (6 1/8 x 3 15/16 x 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2009.37.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Cohen 1912, 992
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Musinsky Rare Books, Inc., New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1912: 992.
Inscriptions
upper center in graphite on front free endpaper: un livre très rare et très / recherchè, vec 7 figures / et 13 vignettes par Oesen / fils, gravées par Stock, / Geyser, etc. [?] signées. / -HENRI COHEN, Livresa / Gravures du XVIIIe Siècle, 992