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album
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print
Object Type
album
print
Museum number
1884,0308.13-23
Description
5 woodcuts by Johann Georg Unger after J. W. Meil representing various figures including a bagpiper, peasant women and children, and men at a tavern, and 6 wood-cuts by Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Unger showing peasants and beggars from "Sechs Figuren für die Libehaber der schönen Künste" (Breslau, 1779), pasted into an album with further wood-engravings by Unger junior (for which see 1859,0212.118.1 to 25). Woodcuts
Producer name
Print made by:
Johann Georg Unger
After:
Johann Wilhelm Meil
Print made by:
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Unger
School/style
German
Production date
1779
Production place
Published in:
Berlin (city)
Published in:
Breslau
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
374 millimetres
Width:
310 millimetres
(approx. size of each album page)
Bibliographic references
Nagler 1835-52 / Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon
(vol. 19, no. 2, p. 243)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
musician
peasant/villager
tavern/inn
child
Acquisition date
1884
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1884,0308.13-23