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Johann Georg Wille and Charles Parrocel

Two Soldiers

1747-1757

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Two Soldiers

1747-1757

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 175 x 224 mm. (6 7/8 x 8 13/16 in.) Plate: 159 x 207 mm. (6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.) Image: 137 x 180 mm. (5 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.902
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, lower left, in plate "Parrocel inv."; in image, lower right, in plate "JG Will fecit"; above image, upper right, in plate "II"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Charles Parrocel

1687–1751

French, 1688-1752
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