The Angler
c. 1700/1725
Artist, German, 1665 - 1748

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper, laid down on Phillips's album sheet
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 17.2 × 1.6 cm (6 3/4 × 5/8 in.)
sheet: 17.6 × 15.1 cm (6 15/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
mount: 38 × 28 cm (14 15/16 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2019.161.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Andresen no. 8, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John S. Phillips, [1800 - 1876], Philadelphia (his album sheet); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts until 1985, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985.52.17274, deaccessioned duplicate, 2017); (C. G. Boerner, New York); gift to NGA, 2019.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1864
Andresen, Andreas. _Der deutsche Peintre-Graveur, oder die deutschen Maler als Kupferstecher nach ihrem Leben und ihren Werken, von dem letzten Drittel des 16. Jahrhunderts bis zum Schluss des 18. Jahrhunderts, und in Anschluss an Bartsch's Peintre-Graveur: no. 8, ii/ii
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left of mount: 165-62; by later hand, upper right of mount in ink: 54; by later hand, lower right of mount: Beich sc / 1985..52.17274 [crossed out] / Meyer 22 / Andresen (PG) 8 ii/ii; Andresen (H) 22