electrotype(galvanograph)
- Museum number
- 2012,7057.1
- Description
-
Faust in his study; a figure in sixteenth-century dress seated in profile to the left, at a small table reading, other books stacked nearby. 1840
Galvanograph
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 114 millimetres
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Width: 85 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The process of galvanography, an intaglio method of producing prints to give the appearance of wash drawings, was devised by Pocci's contemporary in Munich, Franz Kobell, see dealer's catalogue, Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris, June 2012, no. 56 (E. M. Harris, 'Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 6, 1970, part V, p.70 and 79; Schaar 6). Listed in M. Bernhard, (ed.)'Franz Graf von Pocci: die gesamte Druckgraphik', Munich, 1974, p.651 under single-sheet etchings (as 'Alchimist' 1840).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2012,7057.1
