Battling Tritons

1763

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Artist, German, 1712 - 1774

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.9 x 14.6 cm (3 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.60.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Linck 1846, no. 43

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1790

  • Heinecken, Karl Heinrich von. Dictionnaire des Artistes, dont nous avons des Estampes, avec une notice détaillée de leurs ouvrages graveés. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1790 (reprinted New York and London 1970).

1846

  • Linck, J.F. Monographie...C.W.E. Dietrich. Berlin, 1846, no. 43

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: Dietriej 1763; by later hands, on verso in graphite: 4780 / SB 684 - vx s.b. 96

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q75122126

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