Die Luft / L'Air (Air), c. 1750

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series Title

The Four Elements

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.85 × 19.05 cm (11 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 40.64 × 25.4 cm (16 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Accession Number

2018.113.54

Artists / Makers

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (artist) German, 1709 - 1761

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Die Luft / I.W. Baumgartner, del.; lower right in plate: L'Air / Ioh. Georg Hertel, excud. A.V.; upper left verso in graphite: 1138a; lower right verso in blue pencil: 59

Provenance

Probably William E. Suida [1]; by descent Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

[1] per Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Associated Names

Dolnier, Sandy
Manning, Robert L., Mr. and Mrs.