Six Great Events of 1780-1790

1791

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Artist, German, 1726 - 1801

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (6 etchings on one sheet from one plate) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25 × 21.5 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
    plate: 22.8 × 20.2 cm (9 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.52.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Engelmann 1857, no. 661ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wolfgang von Dallwitz, Wusterhausen/Dosse.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022-2023.

Bibliography

1857

  • Engelmann, Wilhelm. Daniel Chodowiecki's sammtliche Kupferstiche. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857.

Inscriptions

Recto: in plate: top left: Toleranz / D: Chodowiecki inv: del & sculps. 1791; top center: Aufklärung / D. Chodowiecki inv. & sc:; top right: Kayser Leopolds sanste wieder Eroberung seiner Balgischen Staten / D Chodowiecki inv: del. & sc:; bottom left: Der Fürstenbund / D: Chodowiecki 1791; bottom center: D: Chodowiecki inv: & sc: 1791 / Der Todt Friedrichs des Zweyten; bottom right: D Chodowiecki inv: & Sculps: 1791 / Die neue Französische Constitution; at bottom right, in graphite: 661
Verso: at center, in graphite: E 661 II [upside down] / Allegorische - historische / [indecipherable] / E 661 II; at bottom left, in graphite: 120.-

Markings

verso: Wolfgang von Dallwitz (L. 2656)

Wikidata ID

Q65567491

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