View of the Loss of the Rhone, 1791

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2021.23.1

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Louis Bélanger (artist after) French, 1756 - 1816

Molteno, Colnaghi, & Co. (publisher) British, active 1790s

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Antiquariat Clemens Paulusch GmbH

Exhibition History

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