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 hand-colouring ; sheet 50.7 x 73.6 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. Bound with a foreword in letterpress in French and German, listing and describing each view. Bound within a volume which contains 49 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.