Travelers in Gigantic Caverns, c. 1800

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on wove paper, proof before caption

Dimensions

plate: 56.8 × 64.4 cm (22 3/8 × 25 3/8 in.)

sheet: 59.9 × 68 cm (23 9/16 × 26 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Blanc, nos. 104-105, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.639

Artists / Makers

Johann Peter Pichler (artist) Austrian, 1765 - 1807

Guillam Dubois (artist after) Dutch, c.1610 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom left: CD Bois; in image, at bottom right: Pichler sc.; below image, at left: Das Original befindet sich in der Sammlung des kaiser köningl. Leib Chrirug Huncźowsky; below image, at center: Tum poteris magnas moles / Speluncasque velut saxis pendentibus structas / Cernere. / Lucrecius. de Rerum Natura.

Provenance

Oettingen-Walderstein Collection (no stamp). [1] (Christopher Menendez, London); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased March 13, 1998; Gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] According to receipt.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mendez, Christopher
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1854: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: nos. 104-105, only