View of the Loss of the Rhone

1791

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

Molteno, Colnaghi, & Co.

Publisher, British, active 1790s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 55.8 × 72.2 cm (21 15/16 × 28 7/16 in.)
    image: 48 × 69.5 cm (18 7/8 × 27 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2021.23.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Antiquariat Clemens Paulusch GmbH, Berlin); purchased 2021 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image at left: Louis Belanger Le Romain pinx.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Catherine Prestel scul; in plate, along bottom: A View of the Loss of the Rhone Vue de la Perte du Rhone / To the Right Honble the Earle of Exeter This Plate is humbly Dedicated by his Lordship most obliged & humble Servt / Molteno Colnaghi & Co. / London Pubd as the Act directs May 1 1791 by Molteno Colnaghi & Co. No.132 Pall Mall.;
verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

Auvergne Dupuy dovecote?

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