Mediterranean Seascape, 1782-1785

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 9]

Medium

aquatint and stipple in gray and black

Dimensions

mount: 33.7 × 48.8 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 14.6 × 19.8 cm (5 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.267

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Thomas Wyck (artist after) Dutch, c. 1616 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at right: No 9; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Thomas Wyck de Harlem / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein. / M. Cath. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius