Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille
The Sargeant
1789
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 517 x 414 mm. (20 3/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
Plate: 511 x 406 mm. (20 1/8 x 16 in.)
Image: 442 x 375 mm. (17 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3700
Subject based on the rescue of a woman from two bandits by barrack master ("maréchal de logis") Louis Gillet in 1783
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.
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: BL: (graphite) "LB 14"; BR: (graphite) "1st state"; BRC: (graphite in diamond) "1576"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
