Carl Wilhelm Kolbe I and Salomon Gessner
Sacrifice to the God Pan
1799-1809
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 241 × 328 mm. (9 1/2 × 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.8220
Remarque proof, with etched lines in the margins. Copied in reverse after a gouache of 1787 by Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788. Published in 1811, with lettering below image, as plate 24 from "Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner gravés à l'eau forte par Guil. Kolbe" (Zurich, à la libraire de Gessner, 1811), a series of of 25 etched plates plus frontispiece.
Inscribed: Recto: above image, upper right, in graphite "XIII"; below image, lower left, in graphite "Gessner"; below image, lower right, in graphite "92." Verso: lower right in graphite diamond with "10223"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
