album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1894,1124.26.1-395
Description: An album of approximately 445 small eighteenth-century vignettes and book illustrations on various subjects, mainly by German engravers of the school of Chodowiecki. The first print a decorative border by A. Kohl after F. Catel surrounding MS title: "Küpfer v. D. Chodowicky, Fory, Küffner, Meil, Mettenleiter, Penzel, Ramberg, Sambach, Schubert [...] Vignetten [...]". Pasted into a gold-tooled leather volume with "Encyclopedie Methodique. Arts et Mecan. Tome II" on the spine. Etchings and engravings
Producer name: Print made by: Daniel Chodowiecki; Print made by: Abraham Wolfgang Küffner; Print made by: Ludwig Buchhorn; Print made by: Meno Haas; Print made by: Johann Georg Pentzel; Print made by: Johann Heinrich Lips; Print made by: Christian Gottlieb Geyser; Print made by: Eberhard Siegfried Henne; Print made by: Johann Wilhelm Meil; After: Johann Heinrich Ramberg; Print made by: Johann Michael Mettenleiter; Print made by: Johann August Rosmäsler (?); Print made by: Johann Wilhelm Schleuen (?); Print made by: Johann Friedrich Schleuen (?); Print made by: Heinrich Guttenberg; Print made by: Daniel Berger; Print made by: Wilhelm Jury; Print made by: Christian Didrik Forssell; Print made by: Carl August Schwerdgeburth; Print made by: William Ridley; Print made by: Quirin Mark; Print made by: G C Ober; Print made by: Joseph de Longueil; After: Gravelot; Print made by: Johann Philipp Veith (?); Print made by: Pierre François Tardieu; Print made by: Louis Legrand; Print made by: Johann Christoph Nabholz; Print made by: Johann Michael Eben (?)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 245 millimetres (approx. size of each album page); Width: 192 millimetres
Curator's comments: Includes a small letterpress booklet, "Erklärung der XII. Monats-kupfer, von D. Chodowiecky"
Location: Not on display
Subjects: death; soldier; book/newspaper; education; courtship/love; arts and sciences
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1894,1124.26.1-395

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