Saint Barbara

1782-1785

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint in dark green and etching in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.6 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 18.7 × 14 cm (7 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.279

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, undescribed

Associated Artworks

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Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Head of a Woman

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Jupiter

Maria Catharina Prestel

1781


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, undescribed.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, lower center: 1517 AA; in plate, below image, at right: No 21.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'Albert Altorfer / Du Cabinet de Monsieur de Praun 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

Q65079604


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