2022.229.2: Spring
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2022.229.2
- People
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Johann Phillip Koch, German (c. 1716 - 1796)
After Johann Esaias Nilson, German (Augsburg 1721 - 1788 Augsburg)
- Title
- Spring
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Le Printemps
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1752-1755
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/375645
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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plate: 25.1 × 36.5 cm (9 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
sheet: 28 × 39 cm (11 × 15 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: Un beau bouquet de fleurs me fait un grand plaisir, / Et je de tout mon coeur à mon amant le donne. / Ah! quand à mon coté, pour me bien diverstir, / Il conte ses amours, alors je le couronne. / [illegible text] Nilson inv. et del. N.o 129.
- inscription: in plate, lower center: Le Printemps. / Der Frühling.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Der Blumen bunter Schuck macht ungemein vergnugt, / Wen sich ein schönes Kind an selbigen ergözet, / Und es, wen Coridon an seiner seite light, / Durch winen Liebes-Trieb ihm einen Kranz auf'sczet. / Ioh. Phil. Koch. excud. A.V.
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: SB 2887
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Simon Beattie, Chesham], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2022
- Object Number
- 2022.229.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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