Johann Georg Wille, Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger
Antoine Francois Prevost
1745
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Johann Georg Wille, Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger
Antoine Francois Prevost
1745
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 138 x 88 mm. (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Image: 134 x 87 mm. (5 1/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.955
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Le Blanc, Charles. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, graveur Le graveur en taille douce, 1 (Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1847).
Entries: 170. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Ms. notes [UkBM]; additional states.
Apell, Aloys. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): pp. 459-471.
Lawrence, H. W., Basil Lewis Dighton. French line engravings of the late eighteenth century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910): pp. 88.
Entries: 170. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Ms. notes [UkBM]; additional states.
Apell, Aloys. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): pp. 459-471.
Lawrence, H. W., Basil Lewis Dighton. French line engravings of the late eighteenth century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910): pp. 88.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "Antoine Francois Prevost / Aumônier de S.A.S.M. gr. le Prin. de Conti"; below image, lower left, in plate "Dessiné par C.N. Cochin le fils"; below image, lower right, in plate "et gravé par J.G. Will 1746" Verso: lower left in graphite "f/t"; lower center in graphite "114"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett