print
- Museum number
- 1854,1020.1710
- Title
- Series: Cabinet Schmidt
- Description
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Plate 1: Prisoners brought before a Roman consul; after a drawing by Boitard.
Etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 310 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'Dessins des meilleurs peintres des Pays-Bas, d'Allemagne et d'Italie du Cabinet de M. Gérard Joachim Schmidt à Hambourg, gravés d'après les originaux de même grandeur par J.T.Prestel peintre', Vienna, chez Artaria, 1779; the complete series of 30 plates.
For a list of the series of prints after drawings in the Schmidt collection in Hamburg, see Rudolph Weigel: 'Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen', 1865, p. 75 (cat 114). This entry is for the whole series, and will be replaced in due course with entries for the individual plates. The series is not only of drawings in the Schmidt collection; works from other collections are included.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,1020.1710
