Print Description
Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 23.9 x 36.9 cm (9.41 x 14.53 inch). Image size: 23.9 x 36.9 cm. (9.41 x 14.53 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
MARIA LOUISA VAN HESSEN-KASSEL, PRINCESS DOWAGER OF ORANGE, DUTCH ROYALTY, PIETER TANJ?, GERARD SANDERS, 18TH CENTURY ENGRAVING, ROTTERDAM PUBLISHER, OVAL PORTRAIT | PCO-E15-2-39
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published by Societas Bibliopolorum Rotterodamensis (Rotterdam), 1751.
Reference: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object no. RP-P-OB-105.082; FMP 464.
Biography engraver: Pieter Tanje (1706-1761) was a Dutch engraver active in Amsterdam. He produced numerous refined portrait engravings after contemporary painters and designers. His work is characterized by delicate burin technique combined with etching, and he contributed significantly to 18th-century Dutch portrait printmaking.
Biography artist: Gerard Sanders (active mid-18th century) was a Dutch draughtsman and designer known primarily through reproductive engravings made after his designs. He provided portrait designs for leading engravers such as Pieter Tanj?.
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