Antique Print-CHILDREN PLAY-GAME-Chodowiecki-Basedow-1770

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etching / engraving on hand laid (vergé) paper.
Sheet size: 24,5 x 19 cm. (9,6 x 7,5 inch). Image size: 21,7 x 16,8 cm. (8,5 x 6,6 inch).

This print originates from: ‘Kupfertafeln zum Elementarbuche, für die Jugend ihre Eltern und Freunde …’, published in 1770 by Johann Bernard Basedow. RB-386

Made by ‘Schuster’ after ‘Daniel Chodowiecki’. Daniel Nikjlaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801) was a Polish-German painter and printmaker of Huguenot ancestry. He is most famous as an etcher, and is credited with inventing the ‘remarque’, a small marginal doodle often not intended to be printed in the print for publication. Chodowiecki, however, often did include them, as a bonus for collectors. Publisher: Johann Bernard Basedow (1724-1790), famous pedagogue and follower of Rousseau, founder also of the so-called Philantropinum at Dessau, where the new enlightened views on education were put into practice. In 1770 Basedow had published his first “Elementarbuch”.

Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: CHILDREN PLAY-GAME

RBOS-A4-20