Description
Description: With the retail adress of Bligny in Paris. Reference: Leblanc 80. Portrait of Frederick the Great on horseback.
Artists and engravers:Made by Daniel Berger after Daniel Chodowiecki. Daniel Berger (1744-1824) was a German designer, etcher engraver and stipple engraver from Berlin. He was the son of Friedrich-Gottlieb Berger (1713-1797), He was a student of his father an le Sueur at the Academy. At 20 he entered the workshop of G.F. Schmidt. In 1778 he became a member of the Academy and later a professor. Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) was a Polish-German painter and printmaker of Huguenot ancestry. He is most famous as an etcher, and is credited with inventing the 'remarque', a small marginal doodle often not intended to be printed in the print for publication. Chodowiecki, however, often did include them, as a bonus for collectors.
Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: 'Fridericus II Borussorum Rex.' - Portrait of Frederick the Great on horseback.
Condition: Fair, given age. Small margins, browning, several restored wormholes. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17.2 x 21.4 cm. The image size is ca. 15.8 x 20.4 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.8 x 8.4 inch. The image size is ca. 6.2 x 8 inch.
Medium: Engraving on laid paper.
Location: TPCLA-C61-45
Section: TEMPLATE-264
