Image not available
Matthias Oesterreich
1716-1778
Custode del Registro delle Bolle Pontificie : nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elett. di Sassonia / Cavallier P.L. Ghezzi delineav. ; Matthaeus Oesterreich sculps Dresde.
Dresden : s.n., 1750.
engraving
image: 267 x 199 mm; plate mark: 302 x 207 mm; irregular sheet: 335 x 244 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.675
Notes
Print is numbered "X" at lower left.
No. 10 of a published set of 24 caricatures of members of the court of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector Saxony, engraved by Matthias Oesterreich after Ghezzi and published in Dresden in 1750 with the title: Raccolta di XXIV Caricature Disegnate colla penna dell Celebre Cavalliere Piet: Leon: Ghezzi. Conservati nell Gabinetto di Sua Maestà il Rè di Polonia Elett. di Sassonia.
No. 10 of a published set of 24 caricatures of members of the court of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector Saxony, engraved by Matthias Oesterreich after Ghezzi and published in Dresden in 1750 with the title: Raccolta di XXIV Caricature Disegnate colla penna dell Celebre Cavalliere Piet: Leon: Ghezzi. Conservati nell Gabinetto di Sua Maestà il Rè di Polonia Elett. di Sassonia.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full length caricature of a vatican official in court clothes, facing right, holding up a document with both hands.
Associated names
Oesterreich, Matthias, 1716-1778. Raccolta di XXIV Caricature.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755, designer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755, designer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
Catalog link