R8172: Landscapes Dedicated to Watelet

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R8172

People

Salomon Gessner, Swiss (Zurich 1730 - 1788 Zurich)

Title

Landscapes Dedicated to Watelet

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Landscapes Dedicated to Watelet

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

18th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Germany

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/242023

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on off white wove paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 23 x 21.3 cm (9 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
plate: 20.7 x 18.9 cm (8 1/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
image: 19 x 17.2 cm (7 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.c below image etched in plate: 8.
• inscription: l.r below image etched in plate: S. Gessner inv. et. f.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Watelet: pl. 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Object Number

R8172

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Del-Louise Moyer, "Amyntas," The Story of Christina Schneider's 1777 "Vorschrift", Der Reggeboge: The Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society (Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 2012), Vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 53-67, p. 54, repr. fig. 2

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