Francesco Algarotti, 1752

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 21.2 x 16.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

sheet: 22 x 17 cm (8 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wessely 1887, no. 1, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2004.61.1

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: GF Schmidt ad vivum del: et sculp: Berolini 1752; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: (4.8)/x by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: No 5186 / No 133 (not deciphered); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Jac: 133. Wess 1 ii/von iv
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Provenance

(Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

le Claire, Thomas

Bibliography

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