The Adoration of the Shepherds

1782-1785

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint in printed in red-brown and black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.6 × 33.5 cm (19 1/8 × 13 3/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 32 × 22.2 cm (12 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.286

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

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, at upper right: 1548; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'un vieu Maitre allemand inconnu / du Cabinet de Monsieur de Praun à Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 28 / J. T. Prestel Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65079575

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