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Nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elet. di Sassonia / Cavallier P.L. Ghezzi delin. ; Matthaeus Oesterreich sculps Dresde.

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Matthias Oesterreich
1716-1778

Nell Gabinetto di S.M. il Re di Pol. Elet. di Sassonia / Cavallier P.L. Ghezzi delin. ; Matthaeus Oesterreich sculps Dresde.

Dresden : s.n., 1750.
engraving
image: 261 x 192 mm; plate mark: 304 x 200 mm; irregular sheet: 340 x 232 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.674
Notes
Print is numbered "VII" at lower left.
No. 7 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 man with a queue in court clothes, facing left, with his tricorne hat under his left arm and his left hand tucked into the breast of his coat.

Associated names
Oesterreich, Matthias, 1716-1778. Raccolta di XXIV Caricature.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755, designer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School