print
- Museum number
- 1866,0407.813
- Title
- Object: L'Origine de la Peinture ou les portraits à la mode
- Description
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Dark room with man tracing the shadow of a woman sitting in front of a lamp, on a sheet nailed on the wall behind her; on the left, children tracing the silhouette of a cat, and another child casting the shadow of a rabbit with his fingers
Engraving
- Production date
- 1765-1767 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 489 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to 1929,0608.14; duplicate to 1929,0608.15.
See Curator's Comment for 1878,0713.1238
Lit.: Anke Frölich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737-1806): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Johann Eleazar Zeissig, gen. Schenau', Petersberg, 2018, cat. no. GA 184.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1994/5 Sep-Jan, BM, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, no. 10b
1995 Jan-Mar, Lancaster, Peter Scott Gall, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Mar-May, Edinburgh, NG Scotland, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 May-Jun, Newcastle, Northumbria Univ Gall, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Jul-Aug, Plymouth City Mus & AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Sep-Oct, York City AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Nov-Dec, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0407.813
