Johann Georg Wille, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Johann Georg Wille
Dutch Woman Knitting
1756
Scroll
Johann Georg Wille, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Johann Georg Wille
Dutch Woman Knitting
1756
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 411 x 298 mm. (16 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Image: 355 x 285 mm. (14 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.981
Proof before letters. For additional impressions, see 1984.81.761 and 1984.81.980.
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 margin in reverse, in plate "Funfte Platte - 1757"; below image, lower left, in graphite "64 1st state"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1609"; below image, lower right, in graphite "7 / 8" Verso: lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower right in graphite "1st State [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett