Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 311 × 382 mm. (12 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.)
Image: 249 × 329 mm. (9 13/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.8221
After an ink wash drawing of c. 1770 by Salomon Gessner; one from the series of of 25 etched plates plus frontispiece published in 1811.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Desiné par. Salomon Gessner."; below image, lower right, in plate "Gravé par Guil: Kolbe."; below image, lower center, in plate "DAMON ET PHILLIS / IDILLE / le dessin en lavis se trauve dans le cabinet de S. A. S. la Princesse de Dessau."
Markings: CM: unidentified "JWR" (Lugt 1555e; recto, in graphite); Claghorn
