book of prints; print

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Object Type: book of prints; print
Museum number: 1891,0511.394.1-52
Description: A book of 52 prints by Philipp Andreas Kilian after various contemporary and Old Master painters, representing biblical scenes in rococo frames. With engraved quotations from the Bible in Latin and German beneath and in cartouches on the frame above. With stamp (of a cardinal?) on the first page: "A. E. S. I. A. N. G. P. 1776". Bound together in red at the BM bindery. Etchings and engravings.
Producer name: Print made by: Philipp Andreas Kilian; After: Gérard de Lairesse; After: Bernardo Strozzi; After: Jacopo Tintoretto; After: Jean Restout; After: Francesco Solimena; After: Jacopo Bassano; After: Benedetto Luti; After: Guido Reni; After: Bernard Picart; After: Eustache Le Sueur; After: Raphael; After: Laurent de la Hyre; After: Pierre Jacques Cazes (?); After: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; After: Isaak Fisches I (?); After: Carlo Innocenzo Carlone; After: Johann Holzer; After: Francesco Trevisani (?); After: Jacques Jordaens; After: Antonio Balestra; After: Gottfried Eichler the Elder; After: Johann Justin Preisler; After: Francesco Zuccarelli; After: Charles de La Fosse; After: Sebastiano Ricci; After: Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (?); After: Jean Jouvenet; After: Paolo Veronese; After: Giuseppe Maria Crespi; After: Johann Heinrich Roos (?); After: François Lemoyne; After: Nicola Grassi; After: Louis de Boullogne
School/style
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 242 millimetres; Width: 175 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition date: 1891
Acquisition notes: Stamp with cardinal's hat initialled "A. E. S. I. C. A. N. G. P. 1776". Signature of previous owner also on first page.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,0511.394.1-52

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