Village with Castles in Background, from "Novae Quadem...(Swabian Castles)" – All Works – eMuseum

Matthäus Merian the elder

(Swiss, 1593 - 1650)

Village with Castles in Background, from "Novae Quadem...(Swabian Castles)", 1620

Etching on paper

Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collection; Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 1950.88

Not On View

Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines

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Exhibition History"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
Published ReferencesDAS DRUCKGRAPHISCHE WERK VON MATTHAEUS MERIAN D. AE., by lucas Heinrich Wuthrich, Basel, ref. 583, pl. 363

Maker

after Anton Mirou

DimensionsSheet: 7 1/16 × 9 3/4 in. (17.9 × 24.8 cm)
Image: 6 15/16 × 9 11/16 in. (17.6 × 24.6 cm)

Accession Number 1950.88

Classificationsprint

CopyrightPublic Domain

InscriptionsSigned in plate: P. Anbry Excud | A. Mirou Invent | lettered: M. Merian fecit (l/l)

Catalogue raisonnéHollstein 422 ii/ii

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