Cows

1782-1785

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color aquatint and etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.6 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.2 × 20.4 cm (6 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.273

Associated Artworks

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Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)

Maria Catharina Prestel, Regina Schönecker, Johann Georg Sturm, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Saint Barbara

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, in image, lower center: M. C. Prestel sc; in plate, below image, at right: No 15.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de George Wagner. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur F. Wild à Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: H. S. H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: J. T. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65079591

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