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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2019.11
People
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, German (Danzig, Poland 1726 - 1801 Berlin, Germany)
Title
The Tents in the Berlin Zoological Garden
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1772
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362070

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sight: 35.5 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
frame: 56 × 69.5 cm (22 1/16 × 27 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: Premier promenade de Berlin / La place des Tentes au Parc. / dessinée d'après nature, & gravée a l'eau forte par D. Chodowiecki à Berlin.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Wolf, Stuttgart and Argentina, probably by descent; to his heirs, sold [through C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1991, E. 83]; to John Davidson, Chicago

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Engelmann 83; Bauer 145

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from John B. Davidson
Object Number
2.2019.11
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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