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book of prints
;
print
Object Type
book of prints
print
Museum number
1954,0211.2.1-40
Description
"Recueil de Quelques Desseins de Plusieurs habiles Maitres tirès du Cabinet De S. F. Msgr le Prem: Ministre Comte de Brühl. gravés par Matthieu Oesterreich" (Dresden, George Conrad Walther) 1752; containing 40 prints, numbered 1 to 40, being etchings after drawings by various masters on religious and allegorical subjects, and after the caricatures of Pier Leone Ghezzi, all from the collection of Heinrich, count von Brühl. Bound together with engraved titlepage at the BM bindery. Etchings
Producer name
Print made by:
Matthias Oesterreich
After:
Laurent de la Hyre
After:
Jacques Stella
After:
Simone Cantarini
After:
Sébastien Bourdon
After:
Luca Cambiaso
After:
François Boitard
After:
Annibale Carracci
After:
Nicolas Poussin
After:
Pier Leone Ghezzi
After:
Edme Bouchardon
After:
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
(?)
After:
Parmigianino
After:
Domenico Campagnola
After:
Raphael
After:
Marco Benefial
After:
Camillo Procaccini
After:
Pietro Testa
After:
Paolo Veronese
After:
Pietro da Cortona
After:
Girolamo da Carpi
After:
Andrea del Sarto
After:
Giovanni Battista Internari
After:
Girolamo Maganza
(?)
After:
Palma Giovane
After:
Ciro Ferri
After:
Nicolas Lesueur
School/style
Italian
German
Production date
1752
Production place
Published in:
Dresden (city)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
402 millimetres
Width:
285 millimetres
(approx. sheet size of each page)
Curator's comments
A number of these plates appear in "Raccolta De Vari Disegni Dell Cavalliero Pietro Leone Ghezzi [etc.]", see 1954,0211.3.1-42.
Bibliographic references
Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900
(541)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
draughtsman/painter
religion/belief
caricature
musician
angel
Associated names
Representation of:
Jesus Christ
Representation of:
Virgin Mary
Representation of:
Apollo
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Recueil de Quelques Desseins de Plusieurs habiles Maitres
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
(transferred from the Department of Printed Books in 1954)
Acquisition date
1850
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1954,0211.2.1-40
