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Moses Mendelssohn

Johann Friedrich Bause, Anton Graff

Moses Mendelssohn

1771

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Johann Friedrich Bause, Anton Graff

Moses Mendelssohn

1771

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 280 × 210 mm. (11 × 8 1/4 in.) Image: 250 × 180 mm. (9 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.4413
Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was a German Jewish philosopher, central to the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment).

Inscribed: Recto: in plate: "Moses Mendelssohn / Anton Graff pinx / zu finden in Leipzig bey Bause / J. F. Bause sculps Lips 1772"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Johann Friedrich Bause

German, 1738-1814
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Anton Graff

Swiss, 1736-1813
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