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Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Presentation of Christ in the Temple

1768

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Georg Friedrich Schmidt, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Presentation of Christ in the Temple

1768

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, and drypoint, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 233 x 279 mm. (9 3/16 x 11 in.) Image: 217 x 275 mm. (8 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.7704
After a painting by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy.

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "C. W. E. Dietrich pinx, 1739."; below image, lower right, in plate "G. F. Schmidt fec 1769"; below image, lower center, in plate three lines of text beginning "Darstellung Christi im Tempel [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite "1285"; lower left in graphite diamond with "12455"; lower right in graphite "[indecipherable] Tederca"; lower right in graphite "167"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

German, 1712-1775
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Artist

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

German, 1712-1774
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