drawing
- Museum number
- 1905,0414.40
- Description
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Informal portrait of a father and mother with their eight children; the baby on the mother's lap, another child before her with a cat and alphabet cards, an older child behind at right playing the piano
Pen and black ink, with watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1755-1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 418 millimetres
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Width: 273 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Probably the same family, a few years later and larger, as 1905-4-14-41.
Lit.: Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737-1806): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Johann Eleazar Zeissig, gen. Schenau', Petersberg, 2018, cat. no. Z 120.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1905,0414.40
