Johann Georg Wille, Louis Tocqué
Tycho Hofman
1744
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Johann Georg Wille, Louis Tocqué
Tycho Hofman
1744
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 204 x 150 mm. (8 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Plate: 187 x 135 mm. (7 3/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
Image: 179 x 128 mm. (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3708
After a painting by Louis Tocqué.
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: in image, lower center, in plate "En tibi me Sculptum; Si Sculptum poscis in are / Insculpus cordi me, precor, ipse tuo."; below image, lower center, in plate "Peint par L. Tocqué Profess. de l'Acad. de Peint. Roït. de Paris. & y gravé p. J.G. Will en 1745."; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1708"; below image, lower right, in graphite "4th state" Verso: lower left in graphite "Tycho Hofman 163."
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett