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Antique Master Print-LESSING-PORTRAIT-GERMAN-ENLIGHTENMENT-Krausse-c.1840

Print

€225.00

‘G. E. LESSING. ? STAHLST. V. A. KRAUSSE. DRUCK V. TH. ZOLL IN LEIPZIG.’

– Formal engraved portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), a German philosopher, dramatist and publicist, facing the viewer with slight turn to the left. Dressed in 18th-century attire with curled hair and lace shirt. Framed in stylized engraved border.

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Description

Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 34 x 42.8 cm (13.39 x 16.85 inch). Image size: 29.5 x 37.2 cm. (11.61 x 14.65 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. 3 Small tears in right margin, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

LESSING PORTRAIT KRAUSFE 19TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING GERMAN LITERATURE ENLIGHTENMENT LEIPZIG | PCO-E22-42

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Printed by Th. Zehl in Leipzig, ca. 1840.

Biography engraver: Alfred Krausse (1829-1894) was a German copperplate engraver active from1849 till 1894 in Leipzig.

Additional information

Dimensions 42 × 34 × 1 cm

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