book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1954,0211.3.1-42
- Description
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"Raccolta De Vari Disegni Dell Cavalliero Pietro Leone Ghezzi Romano è di Giovann Battista Internari Romano e di Alcuni Altri Maestri incise in Rame da Matteo Oesterreich. Hambourghese." (Potsdam) 1766; a book of 42 numbered prints, 1 to 35 being caricatures showing individually named figures of pairs or figures (gentlemen, clerics, musicians, servants, lawyers), 36 to 38 etched after drawings representing an allegory of Faith, the Rest on the Flight to Egypt, angel adoring the Christ Child, and an allegory of virtue and vice, and 40 to 42 being semi-caricatural portraits in roundels of Frederic Guillaume Blume, Charles Philippe Cesar and Ange Cori. Bound at the BM bindery with letterpress titlepage and list of contents embellished with woodcut vignettes including one with initials "MO" of the printmaker Matthias Oesterreich.
Etchings
- Production date
- 1766
- Dimensions
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Height: 420 millimetres
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Width: 275 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A number of these plates, with different numbering and sequence, are also included in "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, 1752), see 1954,0211.2.1-40.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1954,0211.3.1-42
