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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1838,1215.394
Title
Series:
Poesies Diverses
Description
Vignette to Frederick the Great's 'Poesies Diverses'; showing a Prussian soldier standing in a landscape being given a sword by Bellona; putto in the foreground to left; soldiers and a cannon in the distance to left; printed on one sheet with 1838,1215.392 1750 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Georg Friedrich Schmidt
Published by:
Johann Friedrich Voss
School/style
German
Production date
1750
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
90 millimetres
Width:
144 millimetres
Curator's comments
See 1838,1215.374.
Bibliographic references
Wessely 1887 / Georg Frederic Schmidt: Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radierungen
(266)
Crayen 1789 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de feu George Frédéric Schmidt; graveur du roi de Prusse
(161b)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical deity
Associated names
Illustration to:
Frederick II, King of Prussia
Representation of:
Bellona
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Poesies Diverses
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Acquisition date
1838
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1838,1215.394