Set of Four Landscapes with Peasant Figures
Katharina Prestel, German, 1747 - 1794
after Johann Albrecht Dietzsch, German, 1720 - 1782
1776
Etching and aquatint, printed in brown on paper
Image: 9 3/8 × 7 in. (23.8 × 17.8 cm)
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 7/8 in. (24 × 17.5 cm)
Mount: 29 7/16 × 20 1/8 in. (74.8 × 51.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.2001.3
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, top center: 50; inscribed, in graphite, bottom center: 85; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Dietsch, Johann Albrecht; inscribed, in graphite, beneath bottom right corner of upper left print: 713.; stamped, in black ink, beneath upper left print: 079; stamped, in black ink, beneath upper right print: 080; stamped, in black ink, beneath lower left print: 081; stamped, in black ink, beneath lower right print: 082; stamped, in black ink, lower right corner: 49||[upper left print] inscribed, in plate, lower right: Ioh. Georg Hertel exe. A. V. ; inscribed, in plate, upper right: J. A. Dietsch delin / M. Catharin: Prestel Sculp.||[upper right print] inscribed, in plate, upper left: J:A.Dietsch delin. / M Catharin.Prestel Sculp.1776; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Ioh.Georg Hertel exe.A.V.||[lower left print] inscribed, in plate, lower left: J.A.Dietsch.delin; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Ioh.Georg Hertel exe.A.V.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: M. Catherine. Prestel, Sculp.||[lower right print] inscribed, in plate, lower left: J.A. Dietsch, delin.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Ioh. Georg Hertel exe. A.V.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: M:Catherine, Prestel, Sculp.
Exhibition History
Images in Translation: Eighteenth-Century Prints after Old Master Drawings Selected from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
Provenance
Liechtenstein; Lutz Riester, Frieburg, Germany; sold to present collection, 2001.
Catalogue Raisonne
Nagler: KL 65-68.
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