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The Two Blind Beggars (frontispiece for Recueil de Paysages…)

Johann Georg Wille and Picquet

The Two Blind Beggars (frontispiece for Recueil de Paysages…)

1800

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The Two Blind Beggars (frontispiece for Recueil de Paysages…)

1800

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 256 x 205 mm. (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.) Plate: 195 x 153 mm. (7 11/16 x 6 in.) Image: 164 x 137 mm. (6 7/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.896
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: in image, upper center, in plate "Recueil / De Paysages [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "Wille Delt. et Sculpt."; below image, lower center, in plate "A Paris chez Jean, Md. d'Estampes [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "Picquet Jeune, Scripsit."; below image, lower left, in graphite "LB15"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1578 / 1"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2nd state"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Picquet

1793–1820

French, active 1794-1821
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