Johann Georg Wille, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Johann Georg Wille
Dutch Woman Knitting
1756
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Johann Georg Wille, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Johann Georg Wille
Dutch Woman Knitting
1756
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 425 x 313 mm. (16 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.)
Plate: 412 x 300 mm. (16 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Image: 354 x 288 mm. (13 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.761
Proof before letters. For additional impressions, see 1984.81.980 and 1984.81.981.
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: below image, lower left, in graphite "LB no 64/ grave par JG Wille"; below image, lower center, in graphite "128"; below image, lower right, in graphite "tres belle epreuve / tres rare [indecipherable]"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1608" Verso: lower left in graphite "2303 vxx / [indecipherable]"; lower center in graphite "542x"; lower right in graphite "JLEW"; lower right in graphite "Jean-Georges Wille Le B. No. 64. / [indecipherable] epeuvre avant la lettre [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett