Dying Epaminondas
1782
Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint and etching in dark, medium, and light brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 20.4 × 26.9 cm (8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.288
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
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at right: No 30.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Polidoro de Caravaggio.; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano; in plate, below image, at right: J. T. Prestel sc. Norimb. 1782. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65079611