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The Conversation of the Bathers
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Carl Wilhelm Kolbe I and Salomon Gessner

The Conversation of the Bathers

1799

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The Conversation of the Bathers

1799

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 249 × 334 mm. (9 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.8219
Remarque proof, with etched lines in the margins. After a gouache by Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788. Published in 1811, with lettering below image, as plate 21 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: below image, lower left, in graphite "Gessner del."; below image, lower right, in graphite "Kolbe sc"; below image, lower right, in graphite "9" Verso: lower right in graphite diamond with "10224"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

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