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AFTER CARL PIER. Design for an Altar, Plate 2 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars

Design for an Altar, Plate 2 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars. Artist: After Carl Pier (German, active Augsburg, ca. 1750). Dimensions: Overall: 8 7/16 × 13 3/4 in. (21.5 × 35 cm). Engraver: Jacob Gottlieb Thelot (German, Augsburg 1708-1760 Augsburg). Publisher: Martin Engelbrecht (German, Augsburg 1684-1756 Augsburg). Date: Printed ca. 1750-56. Ornament print with a design for a double altar in frontal elevation. The design appears to show two variants, with a single altar table on the left side and a double structure on the right. The left side is shaped more naturalistically and shows two candelabras, while the right side is more architectonic in its structure.This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.
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Design for an Altar, Plate 2 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars
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Design for an Altar, Plate 2 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars. Artist: After Carl Pier (German, active Augsburg, ca. 1750). Dimensions: Overall: 8 7/16 × 13 3/4 in. (21.5 × 35 cm). Engraver: Jacob Gottlieb Thelot (German, Augsburg 1708-1760 Augsburg). Publisher: Martin Engelbrecht (German, Augsburg 1684-1756 Augsburg). Date: Printed ca. 1750-56. Ornament print with a design for a double altar in frontal elevation. The design appears to show two variants, with a single altar table on the left side and a double structure on the right. The left side is shaped more naturalistically and shows two candelabras, while the right side is more architectonic in its structure.This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.
Technique/material:
ETCHING
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Publisher:
Martin Engelbrecht (German, Augsburg 1684-1756 Augsburg)
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
2476 x 3275 px | 23.2 MB
Print size:
21.0 x 27.7 cm | 8.3 x 10.9 in (300 dpi)
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