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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.349
People
Maria Catharina Prestel, German (Nuremberg 1747 - 1794 London)
After Johann Georg Wagner, German (Meissen 1744-1767 Meissen)
Previously attributed to Johann Gottlieb Prestel, German (1739 - 1808)
Published by Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, German (1745 - 1807)
Title
Two Cows, Two Sheep, and a Goat
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Dessins des meilleurs peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pays-Bas tirés de divers célèbres cabinets
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1780
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370288

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
sheet: 16.4 × 20.4 cm (6 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom: M. C. Prestel

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[James Bergquist, Boston], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, 1994, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.349
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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