Print Description
Medium: Mezzotint engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 19.8 x 29.5 cm (7.8 x 11.61 inch). Image size: 19.8 x 23.5 cm. (7.8 x 9.25 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Small stain at center. Paper edges irregular, uncut. Light dampstaining in margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
JOHANNES GESNER, JOHANN JAKOB HAID, R. DALLICKER, PORTRAIT, ENGRAVING, SWISS BOTANIST, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Johann Jakob Haid (1704?1767), German engraver and mezzotint specialist active in Augsburg. Known for portraits of scholars, clergy, and nobility, often after contemporary painters. One of the foremost German masters of mezzotint in the 18th century.
Biography artist: R. Dallicker (active mid-18th century), painter and portraitist, known for academic portraits, several of which were engraved by Augsburg printmakers including Haid.
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