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

Related Artworks

Prints

Marie de' Medici

Salomon Savery, 16th century

16th centuryDutch

Prints

Still Life

Morin-Jean, 20th century

20th centuryFrench

Prints

Canto XIII. Circle 7 (Round 2) / The Violent Against Themselves; The Wood of the Suicides; The Hounds of Hell

Anonymous Italy (Venice) 1491, 15th century

15th centuryItalian

Prints

Red (Aka), from the series The Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono"; ink, color, mica, embossing and metallic pigments on paper

Japanese

Prints

Untitled

Christian Boltanski, 1998

20th centuryAmerican

Prints

Citizens of Regimentation

Marcel Dzama, 2004

Screen print with hand-coloring

21st centuryCanadian

Prints

Giornico in Valle Leventina

Johann Heinrich Meyer, 18th century

18th centuryGerman

Prints

Bowl Players in the Sunlight

Gwendolen Raverat, 20th century

20th centuryBritish

Prints

To Mr. Mr. Charmed

Paul Gavarni, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

Prints

The Rebel

Walter Gramatté, 1918

Lithograph on white paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Captain Spessa Monti and Bagattino

Jacques Callot, 17th century

17th centuryFrench

Prints

Ruth Places Herself at Boaz's Feet

Philips Galle, c. 1579

Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream

16th centuryNetherlandish