Johann Georg Wille and Antoine Pesne
Charles Frederic
n.d.
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Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 179 x 131 mm. (7 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Plate: 166 x 122 mm. (6 9/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Image: 158 x 113 mm. (6 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.926
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, center, on frame surrounding portrait "CHARLES FREDERIC, ROI DE PRUSSE [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "Pesne pint. à Berlin"; in image, lower center, in plate "s'il fut par sa naissance au Trone destine / les droits [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will S. à Paris"; below image, lower center, in plate "a Paris chez Petit rue S. Jacques [...]"; below image, lower right, in graphite "1st state" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "1698"; lower right in graphite "441 / LeBlanc 135"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
