Kupfer-Bibel, volume II

published 1731

Johann Jacob Scheuchzer

Author, Swiss, 1672 - 1733

Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (author) with plates after Johann Melchior Füssli and border designs after Johann Daniel Preissler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: title page, 3 pages introductory text (unnumbered), 396 pages text (numbered 277-672), 193 engravings (numbered 175-364 with 3 additional plates); plates are engraved by various artists after Füssli; border designs are after Preissler

  • Credit Line

    Epstein Family Fund

  • Dimensions

    page size: 38.1 × 24.8 cm (15 × 9 3/4 in.)
    book: 39 × 26.5 × 7 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1987.26.2

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.

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Exhibition History

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. 7 (TAB. CCXXXV engraved by Catharina Sperling-Heckel).

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