Johann Georg Wille and Johann Georg Ziesenis
Elizabeth Augusta
1747
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 340 x 213 mm. (13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Plate: 337 x 209 mm. (13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Image: 229 x 167 mm. (9 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.925
After a painting by Johann Georg Ziesenis.
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, center, in plate "Electa / Pro Domo et Patria [...]"; in image, in oval frame, in plate "ELISABETHA AUGUSTA, COMES PALATINA RHENI, ELECTRIX &c."; below image, lower center, in plate "Elisabeth patriae Patris Electissima Conjunx, / Et Mater [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "J.G. Ziesenis pinx"; below image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp."; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d State"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1699 / 2"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
