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| Title: | Title page for a suite of etchings by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder after gouaches by Salomon Gessner, with a portrait medallion of Salomon Gessner etched by Johann Heinrich Lips With a Dedication to the Dowager Empress of Russia, Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner gravés à l'eau forte par Guil. Kolbe (Zurich, a la libraire de Gessner, 1811) |
| Date: | 1811 |
| Artist: | Johann Heinrich Lips (Swiss, 1758–1817) |
| Medium: | Etching and engraving and cast type/letter press |
| Dimensions: | Plate: 4 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches (11 x 11.8 cm) Sheet: 22 1/16 x 16 5/16 inches (56 x 41.4 cm) |
| Classification: | Prints |
| Credit Line: | The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985 |
| Accession Number: | 1985-52-35628 |
| Geography: | Made in Zurich, Switzerland, Europe |
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