2022.229.4: Autumn
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2022.229.4
- People
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Johann Phillip Koch, German (c. 1716 - 1796)
After Johann Esaias Nilson, German (Augsburg 1721 - 1788 Augsburg)
- Title
- Autumn
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: L'Automne
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1752-1755
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/375647
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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plate: 25.1 × 36.7 cm (9 7/8 × 14 7/16 in.)
sheet: 28.2 × 39.7 cm (11 1/8 × 15 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: Par plaisirs et douceurs que l'amour nous donne / Ma Foi! ne paroient pas avec le temps durer. / Si le jous tout divin que nous fournit l'automne / au milieu des plaisirs ne venoit enyvrer. / I.E. Nilson inv. et del. N.o 131.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: L'Automne. / Der Herbst.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: So schertzt und tantzet man der Wein gibt neüe Krasst, / Doch rde diese Lust man nicht gar lang genienssen, / Wen man die süsse Frucht von BAchus Lebens=Sasst / Nicht sorgensloss dabeÿ liess in die Kehle fliessen. / Ioh. Phil. Koch excud. 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
- 2022.229.4
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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