The Adoration of the Shepherds
1782-1785
Artist, German, 1739 - 1808
Johann Gottlieb Prestel after a 16th-Century German Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint in printed in red-brown and black
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Credit Line
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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 Number
1948.11.286
Associated Artworks
See all 36 artworks
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
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