Johann Georg Wille
Jean Martin Preisler
1742
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Johann Georg Wille
Jean Martin Preisler
1742
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 225 x 159 mm. (8 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Plate: 193 x 136 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Image: 181 x 124 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.948
Portrait of the printmaker Jean Martin Preisler.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "Jean Martin / Preisler, / Graveur, / Né à Nuremberg, le / 14 Mars 1715. / Dessiné et Gravé / Par son ami / J.G. Will. / à Paris / 1743."; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1715"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2nd State" Verso: lower center in graphite "168"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
