Self-Portrait with a Spider in the Window

1758

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.3 x 17.8 cm (9 3/16 x 7 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 x 19.8 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.132.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wessely 1887, no. 103

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1815

  • Jacoby 1815, undesc.

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 112, ii/ii.

1880

  • Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 62.

1887

  • Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Georg Frederic Schmidt. Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radirungen. Hamburg, 1887.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: George Friderich Schmidt, / Se ipse fecit aqua forti Petropol 1758.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 11360 26; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: Nr 103; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 443

Wikidata ID

Q74894031

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