Saint Barbara
1782-1785
Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint in dark green and etching in black
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Credit Line
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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
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, undescribed
Associated Artworks
See all 35 artworks
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