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print
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portfolio
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
School/style
German
Production date
1875
Production place
Published in:
Vienna (city)
Printed in:
Vienna (city)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
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.
Bibliographic references
Manteuffel 1926 / Alfred Rethel ... mit einem ... kritischen Verzeichnis der Bilddrucke
(82.III)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
battle
ancient history
Associated names
Representation of:
Hannibal
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
C G Boerner
Funder name
Funded by:
Arcana Foundation
Acquisition date
1998
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1998,0426.37.1-6