Homer Nach Antiken Gezeichnet

1801

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Artist, German, 1751 - 1829

Homer

Author, Greek, active before 700 B.C.

Christian Gottlob Heyne

Author, German, 1729 - 1812

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein for authors Homer and Christian Gottlob Heyne

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with etched and engraved illustrations, including 8 initials, 19 head- or tailpieces and 37 plates

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 52 × 36.5 × 3.7 cm (20 1/2 × 14 3/8 × 1 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.203.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Andresen 1878, II, nos. 21-102

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

unidentified bookplate on paste-down. Schloss biblioteck, Dessau (stamp). Sammlung Hauswedell, Hamburg; purchased May 23, 1984 by Beatrix von Hoffmann; purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1878

  • Andresen, Andreas. Die deutschen Maler-Radirer (peintres-graveurs) des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, nach ihren Leben und Werken. 5 vols. Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1878: II, nos. 21-102.

Inscriptions

by later hands, first free end-paper in graphite upper left: 1597 SF; bottom center: Iste Aüsgabe. / Mit 13 Vignetten / 8 [?] / 18 [?] / 37 [?]; upper right 2nd free end-paper in brown ink: [not deciphered] / 350-.; last end-paper upper right in graphite: 4621 Heffe 3-6 lack title pages; upper left: 400.-

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