- Title
- Vue de la Place de lOpera, et de la Nouvelle Bibliotheque ainsi que de lEglise Catholioque. Dediee a Son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur le Prince Frederic, Prince hereditaire de Prusse etc. : XI. / Desine et grave a Berlin par Jean Rosenberg a Berlin en 1782.
- Creator
- Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
- Publication details
- [Berlin] : par ses tres humbles Serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie, Marchands d'Estampes., [1782]
- Physical details
- 1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52 x 73.7 cm.
- Description
- View of the Opernplatz or Bebelplatz in Berlin; the State Opera on the left; St Hedwig's Cathedral behind; the Old Library or Alte Bibliothek on the right-hand side; figures 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.