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Robert Blyth, Johann Georg Wille, Charles Parrocel

Soldiers and Vendor

1700-1799

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Robert Blyth, Johann Georg Wille, Charles Parrocel

Soldiers and Vendor

1700-1799

Physical Qualities Etching, with graphite additions, Sheet: 215 x 165 mm. (8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.) Plate: 195 x 145 mm. (7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.) Image: 173 x 133 mm. (6 13/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.815
This print is in reverse of Wille's composition (see 1984.81.815). Possibly by Robert Blyth, from his series of six prints after Parrocel (all of which are in reverse of Wille's "Reitres et lansquenets" series). This impression is a proof, with graphite additions throughout the sheet.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Le Blanc, Charles. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, graveur Le graveur en taille douce, 1 (Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1847).
Entries: 170. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Ms. notes [UkBM]; additional states.

Apell, Aloys. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): pp. 459-471.

Lawrence, H. W., Basil Lewis Dighton. French line engravings of the late eighteenth century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910): pp. 88.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower right, in graphite "85 [indecipherable] / 2"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Robert Blyth

British, 1750-1784
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Artist

Johann Georg Wille

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Charles Parrocel

French, 1688-1752
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