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The Pilot Exam
Public Domain

Rudolf Jordan, Schulgen-Bettendorf, and others

The Pilot Exam

c. 1839

Scroll

The Pilot Exam

c. 1839

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 278 x 326 mm. (10 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.) Plate: 234 x 310 mm. (9 3/16 x 12 3/16 in.) Image: 174 x 231 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate from "Album of Original Etchings by German Artists, Part 5 (Album deutscher Künstler in Original-Radirungen, Pt. 5" (Düsseldorf: Julius Buddeus, 1840)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2537

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate monogram "IR"; below image, lower center, in plate "Julius Buddeus excudit / Jordan. / Gdr. i. d. Kupferdruckerei d. Konigl. Kunst-Academie zu Düsseldorf v. C.Schulgen-Bettendorf." Verso: printed on blue paper strip adhered to verso: "Ein Lootsen-Examen von Rud. Jordan aus Berlin."

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Rudolf Jordan

German, 1810-1887

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Publisher

Julius Karl Buddeus

German, fl. 1820-1855

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