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: 423 x 309 mm. (16 5/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Plate: 413 x 296 mm. (16 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
Image: 353 x 285 mm. (13 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.980
For additional impressions, see 1984.81.761 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: above image, upper left in reverse, in plate "1757"; above image, upper center, in graphite "A"; below image, lower left, in "Peint par F. Mieris"; below image, lower center, in plate six lines of text beginning "Tricoteuse Hollandoise / Dedié a Monsieur Eberts Banquier [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi."; below image, lower left, in graphite "Wille"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d. state"; below image, lower left, in graphite diamond with "1609"; below image, lower right, in graphite "64." Verso: lower left in brown ink "No. 1600."
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett