Self-Portrait, Drawing, 1752

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.9 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1991.132.2

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Image Use

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Inscription

in reverse, upper left in plate: g f Schmidt / se ipse fecit / aqua forti / 1752; lower left in plate: g f Schmidt se ipse fec; lower left in plate: L/; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 82851 ; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: J134; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: undeciphered; on mount, lower center verso in graphite: 2/470

Provenance

Reverend G. L. Blake (Lugt 1138)

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1815: Jacoby 1815, 134.

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 111, only.

1880: Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 62.