Unweit Visp in Wallis / Thomas Platters Geburts Ort

1799

Ludwig Hess

Artist, Swiss, 1760 - 1800

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.2 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.81.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Andresen 1870
    Andresen 1870, no. 5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Johann Nepomuk Seiler (1793 - 1876) (not in Lugt). (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 27 May 2009, no. 133); (Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1870

  • Andresen, Andreas. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler. Leipzig, 1870 - 1873: no. 5

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: L. Hess 1799; lower center in plate: Umweit Visp in Wallis / Thomas Platters Geburts Ort; by later hand, in graphite on mount: 2481b / .9

Wikidata ID

Q76441146

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