Antique Master Print-FELIX-MERITIS-AUDITORIUM-ART SOCIETY-Vinkeles-Barbiers-1789

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 55 x 44.5 cm (21.65 x 17.52 inch). Image size: 53 x 42 cm. (20.87 x 16.54 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. A few tears in top paper edge. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

FELIX MERITIS, AMSTERDAM, LEARNED SOCIETY, CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, REINIER VINKELES, NOACH VAN DER MEER, 18TH CENTURY, CULTURAL HISTORY, DUTCH PRINTS | EXPO-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Felix Meritis Society, Amsterdam.

State: Rare proof print before captions.

Reference: FMH 5124-a[1].

Biography engraver: Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816) was a prominent Dutch engraver. Noach van der Meer (II) was a Dutch engraver active in the 18th century.

Biography artist: Pieter Barbiers I (1749-1842) was a Dutch painter from the Dutch Republic and later the Kingdom of the Netherlands.. Jacques Kuyper (1761-1808) was a Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer.