Seascape
1782-1785
Artist, German, c. 1762 - c. 1818
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): 15 × 20.1 cm (5 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1948.11.292
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.
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 Vitringa. / 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. 34 / R.C. Schöneckern Sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65081934