Antique Master Print-BATTLE-WAR-HORSES-Johann Christian Rugendas-1697

Subject: Plate 2: This plate shows a battle scene.
Condition: UsedGood
Medium: Mezzotint engraving printed over a seperately printed ockre base with left open whites, giving a clair-obscure effect. Printed on a verge type of hand laid paper. Mezzotint engravings are scarse as few prints could be made from a plate.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 32.5 x 19 cm. The image size is ca. 32 x 18 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 12.8 x 7.5 inch. The image size is ca. 12.6 x 7.1 inch.
Part Number: 37520
Location: PCO-A100-05
Description: This original antique print published in Germany 1697. Our definition of a Master Print is a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters.

Artists and Engravers: This plate by Johann Christian Rugendas (German engraver, 1708-1781) after his father Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666-1742). Georg Philipp Rugendas was a German battle and military genre painter and engraver.