Old Man Pointing to the Left
1780
Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint and etching in gray and black
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.8 × 33.7 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.2 × 12.6 cm (6 3/8 × 4 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.266
Associated Artworks
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Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780

Saint Barbara
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782

Head of a Woman
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at right: No 8.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'Adrien van der Venne / tiré de la Collection de Mr. Mathès, Peintre à Hambourg.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1780. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65080348