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Maria Catharina Prestel, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Torre & Co., Artaria & Co

A View of the Black-Lead Mine, in Cumberland

1787

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Maria Catharina Prestel, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Torre & Co., Artaria & Co

A View of the Black-Lead Mine, in Cumberland

1787

Physical Qualities Aquatint and etching, Sheet: 548 × 685 mm. (21 9/16 × 26 15/16 in.) Image: 465 × 640 mm. (18 5/16 × 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2394
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Schwaighofer, Claudia. "Das druckgraphische Werk der Maria Catharina Prestel (1747-1794)," thesis; Stuttgart, 2003 (available online)

Hüsgen, Henrich Sebastian. Artistisches Magazin, enthaltend das Leben und die Verzeichnisse der Werke hiesiger und anderer Künstler (Frankfurt am Main: J. Bayrhoffer, 1790): pp. 410-426. Andresen, Andreas, Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1870-1873.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "M. Cath. Prestel / 1767"; below image, lower left, in plate "P.J. De Loutherbourg R.A. pinxt."; below image, lower right, in plate "M. Cath. Prestel sculpt."; below image, lower center, in plate "A VIEW OF THE BLACK-LEAD MINE, IN CUMBERLAND / Published Feb. 1,1788 by Torre & Co., No. 152 Pall Mall Et a Vienne Chez Artaria & Co."; below image, lower left, in graphite "No 183 / And[indecipherable] 9 vol 2 P334"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "8867"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Maria Catharina Prestel

German, 1747-1794
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Artist

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

French, active in England, 1740-1812
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Publisher

Torre & Co.

Torre & Co (publisher/printer; dealer/auction house; Italian; British; Male; 1760 - 1799; fl)
Also known as
Torre & Co; Torre, Giovanni Battista; Torre, Anthony; Torrés; Torri
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Publisher

Artaria & Co

Austrian, 1767 - 1808
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