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Good Friends

Johann Georg Wille, Adriaen van Ostade, and others

Good Friends

1772

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Good Friends

1772

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 349 x 296 mm. (13 3/4 x 11 5/8 in.) Plate: 297 x 236 mm. (11 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.) Image: 248 x 221 mm. (9 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.775
Proof before letters. For an impression of the 2nd state see 1984.81.783.
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.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: above image, upper left, in plate "18te Platte"; above image, upper center, in plate "W"; below image, lower left, in graphite "LB / 56 Bet 1 + 2nd states"; below image, lower right, in graphite in graphite diamond with "1589"; below image, lower right, in graphite "15 / 21" Verso: lower left in graphite "1608-"; lower center in graphite "Between 1st and 2nd States the [indecipherable] are unfinished"; lower right in graphite "Wille"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Adriaen van Ostade

1609–1684

Dutch, 1610-1685
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Publisher

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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