print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1994,1106.13.1-16
- Description
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"The stages of human life and the virtues from the frieze by Edward Bendemann in the Throne Room in the Royal Palace at Dresden"; volume of 16 etched plates. 1847
Etching
- Production date
- 1847
- Dimensions
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Height: 144 millimetres
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Width: 575 millimetres (each approx.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This volume of plates is bound between marbled paper boards in a green half-leather binding with the title stamped in gilt on a green leather piece pasted to the front cover. There is no title page to this volume. The set is mixed, with plates 1 to 4 being proofs before letters, and 5 to 16 being lettered and numbered. All the plates are on India laid paper. The BM possesses a second loose set of these plates (1870,0514.1283 to 1298).
The etchings are after a cycle of frescoes on "The Stages of Human Life and the Virtues" executed between 1839 and 1847 by Edward Bendemann in the throne room of the Royal Palace in Dresden. P&D already possesses a bound later publication by the same engraver after the frescoes in the concert and ballroom of the palace.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1994,1106.13.1-16
