Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)

Johann Gottlieb Prestel, Maria Catharina Prestel, and Regina Schönecker (printmakers); Johann Georg Sturm (calligrapher); Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen (publisher)1782-1785

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Title: Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)
Creator: Johann Gottlieb Prestel, Maria Catharina Prestel, and Regina Schönecker (printmakers); Johann Georg Sturm (calligrapher); Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen (publisher)
Date Created: 1782-1785
Physical Dimensions: sheet: 48.8 × 33.5 cm (19 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
Provenance: (Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Rights: CC0
Medium: portfolio with thirty-six etching and engravings (many with aquatint and/or soft-ground etching) printed in colors, plus engraved title page

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