Travelers in Gigantic Caverns

c. 1800

Johann Peter Pichler

Artist, Austrian, 1765 - 1807

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on wove paper, proof before caption

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 56.8 × 64.4 cm (22 3/8 × 25 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 59.9 × 68 cm (23 9/16 × 26 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.639

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, nos. 104-105, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Walderstein Collection (no stamp). [1] (Christopher Menendez, London); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased March 13, 1998; Gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] According to receipt.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: nos. 104-105, only

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: CD Bois; in image, at bottom right: Pichler sc.; below image, at left: Das Original befindet sich in der Sammlung des kaiser köningl. Leib Chrirug Huncźowsky; below image, at center: Tum poteris magnas moles / Speluncasque velut saxis pendentibus structas / Cernere. / Lucrecius. de Rerum Natura.

Wikidata ID

Q76557525

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