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Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner. Gravés à l’eau forte par Guil. Kolbe, Zurich, 1805-1811: P.74-2014

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 15: Dutch Gallery

Titles

Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner. Gravés à l’eau forte par Guil. Kolbe, Zurich, 1805-1811

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm I
Draughtsman: Gessner, Salomon (After)

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Categories

Description

The complete set of 25 etchings with separate title and text pages in their original six blue wrappers (with original interleaving tissue), etched after drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-1788) and published by Gessner’s widow, 1805-11.

Notes

History note: Emanuel von Baeyer

Legal notes

Bought from the Reitlinger Print Duplicates Fund with the help of the ACE/ V&A Purchase Grant Fund

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2014)

Dating

19th Century
1805 - 1811

School or Style

German

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.74-2014
Primary reference Number: 279389
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 6 January 2021 Updated: Friday 5 February 2021 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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