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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R6219
People
Balthasar Anton Dunker, Swiss (Saal, Germany 1746 - 1807 Bern)
After Jakob Philipp Hackert, German (Prenzlau 1737 - 1807 Florence)
Title
Crater of Mount Aetna with the Ruins of the Tower of the Philosopher
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Views of Sicily
Original Language Title: Le Crater de l'Etna avec les restes de la tour de Philosophe
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1782
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/242581

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.4 x 20.4 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: B. A. Dunker

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R6219
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Wolfgang Krönig, Vedute di luoghi classici della Sicilia: Il viaggio di Philipp Hackert del 1777, Sellerio editore (Palermo, 1987), pp. 78-79 [not Harvard impression]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/07/2016 - 05/08/2016

Verification Level

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