Title
La Seconde vue du Chateau de la Ville de Potsdam; du Jardin et de l'Ecurie Royale, de l'Eglise de la Garnison de St Nicolas et de lHotel de ville, et les environs prise de la meme Montagne via a vis de Sans souci. : grave par ordre de sa Majeste le Roi de Prusse. / peint par J.F. Meyer: 1771. ; grave par A.L. Kruger 1772.
Creator
Kruger, Andreas Ludwig, 1743-1822, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : Se vend chez Jean Morino & Compagnie: Marchands d'Estampes de l'Acad Royale a_ Berlin., [1772]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52 x 73.4 cm.
Description
Landscape view of Potsdam from Brauhausberg; Potsdam City Palace with St Nicholas' Church behind at the centre of the scene; water in the middle ground; a man in the foreground. Title broken by an etched device of a shield and crown supported by putti. Hand-coloured in gouache.
Place
Potsdam (Germany)
Additional information
Part of a series of ten views of Potsdam. Bound within a volume which contains 50 views including twenty of Berlin by Johann Georg Rosenberg, 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
Morino, Johan, active 1786-1793, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 4.TAB.56.