M26578: Landscape with Figures and Animals along a Riverbank, with Buildings and a Tower in the Background

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M26578

People

Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, German (1712 - 1780)

Title

Landscape with Figures and Animals along a Riverbank, with Buildings and a Tower in the Background

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1744

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/100191

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

image with border: 13.5 x 17.5 cm (5 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: [artist's monogram]
• collector's mark: upper right (inside frame), ink, handwritten: WE [for William Esdaile; see Lugt 2617]
• collector's mark: verso, bottom left, ink, handwritten: WE 1813 P [for William Esdaile; see Lugt 2617]
• inscription: verso, bottom right, graphite, handwritten: Count Haggedorne
• inscription: verso, bottom right, ink, handwritten: S . d .
• inscription: verso, top middle, ink, handwritten: VIAAX [perhaps a price code]
• inscription: verso, near center, graphite, handwritten: (?) th day 109/2
• inscription: recto, lower left, printer's ink, etched, in artist's hand: No. 22. d 15. Aug. 1744
• inscription: recto, lower right, printer's ink, etched, in artist's hand: CLvHD [in monogram?; for 'Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, Dresden'?]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Light-Outerbridge Collection, Gift of Robert M. Light and Acquisition Fund for Prints

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

M26578

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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