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| Title: | The Figure of Discord with a Torch Flying above a Town at Night, with Troops Departing in the Distance Opening vignette for the Second Song of L'Art de Guerre cycle of poems by Frederick the Great, Page 367 in Frederick the Great, Poësies Diverses (Berlin: Ch. F. Voss, 1760) |
| Date: | 1760 |
| Artist: | Georg Friedrich Schmidt (German, 1712–1775) |
| Medium: | Etching |
| Dimensions: | Plate: 3 3/8 x 5 9/16 inches (8.5 x 14.1 cm) Sheet: 4 3/16 x 6 3/8 inches (10.7 x 16.2 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: | 1985-52-42088 |
| Geography: | Made in Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe |
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