$500.00
Design for a frontispiece by the great scholar and early cataloguer of European prints, Adam von Bartsch.
Artist: Adam von Bartsch (1757-1821)
Title: Design for a frontispiece
Date: 1814
School: Austrian, XIXth-century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 295 x 225mm (plate), 412 x 271mm (sheet)
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, close to Heawood 1860 (Berne, 1779) (see image below)
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower left border <<A. Bartsch sc. 1814>>
Condition: Fine condition on laid paper with wide margins and clear watermark
Description: etched design for a frontispiece
Reference: Rudolf Rieger, Adam von Bartsch: Leben und Werk des Wiener Kunsthistorikers und Kupferstechers, 2 vols Petersberg, 2014, II, 54, iii/iii
