print
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.1363
- Title
- Object: G E Lessing
- Description
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Portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, long half-length, seated, turned to the left, head turned and looking to the right, wearing coat and shirt with frill, holding quill and writing on a paper on a table with his right hand, his left hand holding an open book on his knee; table with books on the right, bookshelf behind on the left; in arched frame with three man from 'Nathan the Wise'.
Stipple, etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1772
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.1363