Salomon Gessner, 1775

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Medium

engraving over etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16.7 x 12 cm (6 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

sheet: 27.5 x 17.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Bocher 1879, no. 89, State iv/v

Accession Number

1987.70.14

Artists / Makers

Augustin de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1736 - 1807

Vivant Denon (artist after) French, 1747 - 1825

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in plate top of medallion: GESSNER.; across bottom in plate 5-line inscription below medallion; lower center in plate below frame: Denon ad vivum delin. 1775; lower right in plate below frame: A.d.St.A.s c.; aBp//below frame: Se trouve a Paris ches A.de St.Aubin Graveur du Roi, rue des Mathurins, Hotel d e Clugny.

Bibliography

1879: Bocher, Emmanuel. Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 5. Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1879.