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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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

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

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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