Kupfer-Bibel, volume I
published 1731
Author, Swiss, 1672 - 1733
Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) with plates after Johann Melchior Füssli and border designs after Johann Daniel Preissler
Artwork overview
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Medium
1 vol: ill: mezzotint portrait of Scheuchzer, engraving opposite title page, title page, 26 pages introductory text (unnumbered), 276 pages text (numbered 1-276), 177 engravings (numbered 1-174 with 3 additional plates); plates are engraved by various artists after Füssli; border designs are after Preissler
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 38.3 × 24.4 cm (15 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
book: 39.1 × 26.5 × 6.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 2 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1987.26.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bookplate of Georg August, Count of Erbach; bookplate of Kenneth Mackenzie; The Horticultural Society of New York; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, no. 324); purchased (via Quaritch Ltd.) by NGA, 1987.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
1995
Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995, no cat.
2023
Making her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800, Baltimore Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2023-2024, no. 6 (TAB. CLXV engraved by Catharina Sperling-Heckel).