print; portfolio

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Object Type: print; portfolio
Museum number: 1998,0426.37.1-6
Title: Series: Der Zug Hannibal's über die Alpen
Description: Portfolio of 6 wood-engravings with yellow tint-block after Alfred Rethel, plus one title-page, illustrating Livy's account of Hannibal's journey across the Alps; published by P. Käser, Vienna for the Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst in Wien, 1875.
Producer name: Print made by: Hermann Finke; Print made by: Hermann Werdmüller; Intermediary draughtsman: Hugo Leopold Friedrich Heinrich Bürkner; After: Alfred Rethel; Printed by: Wilhelm Zoeller; Published by: Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst
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Production date: 1875
Production place: Published in: Vienna (city); Printed in: Vienna (city)
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Dimensions: Height: 255 millimetres; Width: 345 millimetres (each approx.)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Plates I, II, V were wood-engraved by Finke; plate III by Wermüller; the wood-engraver of the other two plates is not given. The prints were printed by Wilhelm Zoeller in Vienna. The portfolio is listed as no.169 in the dealer catalogue of C.G. Boerner, "Varia & Curiosa", February 1998.
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: battle; ancient history
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Acquisition date: 1998
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1998,0426.37.1-6

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