Das Bretspiel (Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Board Games), 1756

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series Title

Four Scenes of Entertainment

Medium

engraving with etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.5 x 26.1 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Ratjen Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Schuster 1936, no. 82

Accession Number

2007.111.189

Artists / Makers

Johann Esaias Nilson (artist) German, 1721 - 1788

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center: Das Bretspiel; lower center: Wer Tocadille spielt, is eifrig zu gewinnen, und wer mit Damen zieht bracht alle seine Sinnen / J. E. Nilson, inv : sculps ;et excud. A.V.

Bibliography

1936: Schuster, Marianne. Johann Esaias Nilson: ein Kupferstcher des süddeutschen Rokoko. Munich, 1936, no. 82