Seascape
1782-1785
Artist, German, 1747 - 1794
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.5 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16 × 23 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.291
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.
Bibliography
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 135, fig. 4.
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Guillaume van de Velde. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 33 / M. Cath. Prestel Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65080380