2022.229.3: Summer
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2022.229.3
- People
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Johann Phillip Koch, German (c. 1716 - 1796)
After Johann Esaias Nilson, German (Augsburg 1721 - 1788 Augsburg)
- Title
- Summer
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: L' Eté
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1752-1755
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/375646
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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plate: 25.5 × 36.3 cm (10 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
sheet: 29.1 × 40 cm (11 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, inscription: Quand on dans la verdure est assis a la terre, / Et chante avec plaisir tres musiqualement, / Un galant apporte bientôt de la bierre. / Dan cette Compagnie on est tojour content. / Ioh. Esaias Nilson inv. et de. N.o 130
- inscription: lower center, in plate: L' Eté. / De Somer.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Wen man im grünen sitzt in angenehmer Lust; / Und eine Engels-Stimm in eine Harsse singet, / So labt man osstermahls auch unsere matte Brust, / Wan ein Geliebter uns elwas zu rincken bringt. / Ioh. Phil. Koch exc. A. V.
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
- 2022.229.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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