Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 153 x 114 mm. (6 x 4 1/2 in.)
Image: 139 x 98 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.949
Portrait of Christian Wolff, mathematician and philosopher.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "AD pinxit"; in image, lower center, in plate, four lines of text beginning "Christian Wolff / Professeur des Mathématiqu. / Philosophie [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "J. G. Will Sculpsit"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1716"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2nd State" Verso: upper center in black chalk "142"; lower left in graphite "6oyr / [indecipherable] / 4 [indecipherable]"; lower right in graphite "169"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
