PrintsGerman18th-19th century

Mercury and Argus

18th-19th century

Artists

Johann Gottlieb PrestelArtist

Lorenzo SabatiniArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching and aquatint

Culture

German

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Provenance

Horace M. Swope, St. Louis and New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

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