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Preview image of work. etchings on paper,  Collection ou Suite de Vues Pittoresques de l'Italie (Dessinées d'après Nature et Gravées à l'eau Forte à Rome) SEE INDIVIDUAL ETCHINGS 27936

2014.13.1.-.74

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Collection ou Suite de Vues Pittoresques de l'Italie (Dessinées d'après Nature et Gravées à l'eau Forte à Rome) SEE INDIVIDUAL ETCHINGS

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Artists

Johann Christian Reinhart (Hof, Germany, 1/24/1761 - 6/9/1847, Rome, Italy); Albert Christoph Dies (Hanover, Germany, 2/11/1755 - 12/28/1822, Vienna, Austria); Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (Leipzig, Germany, 1/16/1745 - 3/14/1808, Dresden, Germany); Johann Christian Reinhart, Albert Christoph Dies and Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

Title

Collection ou Suite de Vues Pittoresques de l'Italie (Dessinées d'après Nature et Gravées à l'eau Forte à Rome) SEE INDIVIDUAL ETCHINGS

Creation Date

n.d.

Century

late 18th century

Dimensions

15 7/8 x 20 1/4 in. (40.32 x 51.44 cm) each

Object Type

prints

Creation Place

Europe, Germany

Medium and Support

etchings on paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, David P. Becker Fund

Copyright

This artwork may be under copyright. For further information, please consult the Museum’s Copyright Terms and Conditions.

Accession Number

2014.13.1.-.74

Object Description

Per Curator, Joachim Homann 3/17/2014 (From dealer’s catalog:):
Reinhart, J. C. - Dies, A. C., J. C. Reinhart & J. Mechau. Collection ou suite de vues pittoresques de l'Italie dessinées d'après nature. Nürnberg, Frauenholz, 1798. Gr.-fol. Mit 72 Original-Radierungen von Dies, Reinhart u. Mechau. 2 Bll. Titel u. Inhalt. Lose Bll. u. Taf. in mod. Leinen.-Kassette mit Deckelschild. Euro 15.000,-- Andresen (Reinhart) 52-75 u. (Dies) 5-28; Thieme-B. IX, 248 (Dies),XXIV, 323 (Mechau) u. XXVIII, 125 (Reinhart); Schmid S. 161 ff., bes. S. 237-244. - ** (English brief) Complete set of 72 etchings in large folio by the famous German artists Reinhart, Dies and Mechau with beautiful landscape views of Rome and its surroundings. - Slight spotting and thumbing, small numbering to lower right platemark, few small marginal tears, larger tear (4 cm) to pl. 13, folding to pl. 12, some creasing to upper margin of pl. 26.Overall a fine copy, unsewn as issued in a recent cloth box.