Antique Print-JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU-PORTRAIT-Haid-Vecharigi-1780

Original antique print showing a portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778), a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.

Made by Johann Elias Haid after Vecharigi.

Medium: Mezzotint engraving on hand laid paper.

Sheet size: 22.5 x 31 cm (8.86 x 12.2 inch). Image size: 13 x 21 cm. (5.12 x 8.27 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Tear at top lefdt extending into image, backed. Horizontal crease at top margin. Light soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU-PORTRAIT | RB-A8-05

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Johann Elias Haid (1736-1809) was a pupil of his father Johann Jakob. He worked in Augsburg.