2022.229.1: Winter
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2022.229.1
- People
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Johann Phillip Koch, German (c. 1716 - 1796)
After Johann Esaias Nilson, German (Augsburg 1721 - 1788 Augsburg)
- Title
- Winter
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: L' Hyver
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1752-1755
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/375644
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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plate: 25 × 36.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
sheet: 28 × 39.2 cm (11 × 15 7/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: L'Hyver est de retour cette Saison cruelle, / On cherche auprès du vin un etrangere ardeur / Mais en deit l'Hyver mon adorable Belle / N'a pas pour le present moins amour du son coeur. / Ioh. Esaias Nilson inv. et del. N.o 132.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: L'Hyver. / Der Winter.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Man macht sich diese Zeit durch manchen Scherz zu nutz, / Der Wein mus bey dem Frost das kalte Hertz entründen; / Doch meine Schöne läft dem Winter selbst zum trutz / Ein Hertze voller Glut und Liebes Hitze Finden. / Ioh. Phil. Koch excud. A. V.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Simon Beattie, Chesham], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2022
- Object Number
- 2022.229.1
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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