album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1859,0212.118.1-25
Description: An album of wood-engravings by J. Unger Jun., from a picture book for children, "Fünf und zwanzig in Holz geschnittene Figuren" (1779). Depicting various human and animal subjects in the tradition of Callot. Pasted into an album with fragment of original letterpress titlepage. Together with further woodcuts by Unger (for which see 1884,0308.13 to 23). Wood-engravings
Producer name: Print made by: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Unger; After: Johann Wilhelm Meil
School/style: German
Production date: 1779
Production place: Published in: Berlin (city); Published in: Breslau (historic)
Materials: paper
Technique: wood-engraving
Dimensions: Height: 374 millimetres; Height: 55 millimetres; Width: 310 millimetres (approx. size of each album page); Width: 80 millimetres (approx. size of each print)
Bibliographic references: Nagler 1835-52 / Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (vol. 19, no.6, p. 244) (?)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: musician; peasant/villager; traveller/travel; child; animal
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1859,0212.118.1-25

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