Project d'une Grotte (Plan for a Grotto)
c. 1755/1760
Artist, German, 1721 - 1788

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)
sheet: 40.3 x 25 cm (15 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1993.54.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main, cat. 23, 1988, no. 59); purchased 1993 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1880
Guilmard, Désiré. Les Maitres Ornemanistes. Paris, 1880: p. 444, no. 79, IX.
1924
Jessen, Peter. Meister des ornamentstichs, eine Auswahl aus vier Jahrhunderten. Berlin, 1922-1924: 3:141.
1935
Schuster, Marianne. J.E. Nilson. Munich, 1935, no. 70-73.
1960
Döry, Ludwig. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung. Hamburg, 1960: p. 21, no. 66, IX.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: J. E. Nilson, inv: Sculps: et excud: Aug: Vind:; upper right in plate: 3.; across bottom in plate: Project d'une Grotte; by later hand, upper right in brown ink: 41.
Watermarks
Heart with the letter "W"
Wikidata ID
Q75124797