Johann Georg Wille and Johann Georg Ziesenis
Charles Theodore, Count Palatine of the Rhine
1747
Scroll
- Artist: Johann Georg Wille
- Artist: Johann Georg Ziesenis
Charles Theodore, Count Palatine of the Rhine
1747
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 341 x 212 mm. (13 7/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Plate: 336 x 208 mm. (13 1/4 x 8 3/16 in.)
Image: 227 x 163 mm. (8 15/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.923
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: above image, center, in plate "Magnus / Pro Deo, et [...]"; in image, on frame, in plate "CAROLUS THEODORUS, COM. PAL. RH. [...]"; below image, lower center, in plate "Magnus Magnorum Carolus Theodorus [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "J.G. Ziesenis pinx"; below image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp."; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d State"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1699 / 1"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
