Title
Eglise Catholique Ste Hedwige Vuie par derriere de la rue Francoise, avec le Palais du Prince Henry, dans Leloignement. Dediee et Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur le Duc de Courlande et de Semgalle. : VIII. / Desine et grave a Berlin par J. Rosenberg a Berlin 1777. ; JAE Niegelssohn K:Zinna 1788.
Creator
Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : par ses tres humbles Serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie, marchands d
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52 x 73.7 cm.
Description
View from the bfranzo_sische stra
Place
Berlin (Germany)
Additional information
Part of a series of twenty views of Berlin. This view is a duplicate added after the complete series of 20 views within the volume, which are coloured with watercolour. The duplicates are hand-coloured in gouache. This particular print was coloured by Johann August Ernst Niegelssohn in 1788. It is bound with a foreword in letterpress in French and German, listing and describing each view. Bound within a volume which contains 50 views including 10 views of Potsdam by Andreas Ludwig Kruger after Johann Friedrich Meyer, published by Jean Morino. Also within this volume is a title sheet depicting a landscape and monument in gouache which reads 'Collection des Vues principals de Berlin et de Potsdam apartenante a Le Majeste George III. Roi de la Grande Bretagne, de France et dIrelane etc: etc: et presentee par ses tres humbles, tres respectueux et tres soumis serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie. Berlin. 1789'. This sheet suggests that the volume was compiled for King George III by Morino.
Other persons
Niegelssohn, Johann August Ernst, 1757-1833, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 4.TAB.56.