Title
Vue de la Maison des Orphelins et des environs, prise hors de la porte de Strahlow. Dediee a Son Excellence le Marquis de Lucchesini, Chambellan de Sa Maj: Prussienne. : XX. / Peint et grave par J. Rosenberg.
Creator
Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : par ses tre_s humbles Serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie Marchands d Estampes., [about 1776-1785]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 51.4 x 73.7 cm.
Description
View from the Stralauer Bridge towards the Waisenbru_cke or Orphan's Bridge in Berlin; the Alten Friedrichs-Waisenhauses or or the Great Friedrich-Hospital orphanage and church on the right-hand side; figures and boats in the foreground.
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. 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
Morino, Johan, active 1786-1793, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 4.TAB.56.