Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 395 x 268 mm. (15 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Mount: 443 x 311 mm. (17 7/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maria Lovell Eaton and Mrs. Charles R. Weld
Object Number
1932.73.138.25
Mechel's print is after the Funerary Monument of Maria Magdalena Langhans (née Wäber) and of her Stillborn Child in Hindelbank, Switzerland, created by Johann August Nahl in 1751; print is not accompanied by related explanation in letterpress; from an album now separated (see separate records). Each print given own number but stored together.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1932; Maria Lovell Eaton and Mrs. Charles Weld; Robert Gilmor
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, 24 April - 15 July 2013.
Inscribed: across bottom in plate: "TOMBEAU DE MADAME LANGHANS, / 'inventé et executé par M. I. A. Nahl dans l'Eglise Paroissale de Hindelbanck / à 2 lieues de Berne / à Basle chez Chr de Mechel / Avec Privilège de LL. MM. II. R. & Apostolique"
