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Plate 5 from Marie-Joseph Chénier’s “Bartholomäusnacht” for the “Göttinger Taschenkalender fur das Jahr 1791”

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki and Johann Christian Dieterich

Plate 5 from Marie-Joseph Chénier’s “Bartholomäusnacht” for the “Göttinger Taschenkalender fur das Jahr 1791”

1789

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Plate 5 from Marie-Joseph Chénier’s “Bartholomäusnacht” for the “Göttinger Taschenkalender fur das Jahr 1791”

1789

Physical Qualities Etching, Mount: 455 x 320 mm. (17 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.) Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 90 x 57 mm. (3 9/16 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11224
One of a series of twelve illustrations to Marie-Joseph Chénier's "Bartholomäusnacht" for a Göttingen pocket calendar ("Göttinger Taschenkalender") for the year 1791. The complete set is in the Garrett collection (1946.112.1120 - 1946.112.11231).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: above image, upper right, in plate "5"; below image, lower center, in plate "Des Menschen Tugend ist nicht glau-/ / ben, sondern thun. / III Aufz L Auftr.". Verso: lower center in graphite diamond with "10140"; lower center in graphite "5"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

1725–1800

German, born Poland, 1726-1801
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Publisher

Johann Christian Dieterich

1721–1799

German, 1722 - 1800
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