Mediterranean Seascape

1782-1785

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and stipple in gray and black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 33.7 × 48.8 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 14.6 × 19.8 cm (5 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.267

Associated Artworks

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Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Saint Barbara

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Head of a Woman

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at right: No 9; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Thomas Wyck de Harlem / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein. / M. Cath. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65080350

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