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Count Francesco Algarotti

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Count Francesco Algarotti

1745-1755

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Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Count Francesco Algarotti

1745-1755

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 291 x 198 mm. (11 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.) Plate: 212 x 162 mm. (8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7660
Etching, with text below printed from a second plate

Signed: 2

Inscribed: Recto: below image, center, in plate two columns of text in Latin, each six lines, beginning "Hoec ALGAROTTI effigies, quo Cive superbit [...]" Verso: upper left in brown ink "Bchi: 6"; upper right in brown ink "B 4"; lower left in graphite diamond with "12413"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

1711–1774

German, 1712-1775
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