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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3292
People
Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, German (1779 - 1857)
Title
Chess Players
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1831
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/278210

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 22 x 28 cm (8 11/16 x 11 in.)
image: 19.1 x 22.1 cm (7 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on plate in lower right corner: MRetzsch [MR intertwined] / 1831

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3292
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Bruce Monroe Morgan, Lord, Lift Me Up Beyond the Tumult of the Times, Nurturing Faith, Inc. (Macon, GA, 2012), p. 22, reproduced

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