Title
Vue du Marche de Hack, du Pont de Spandau de lEglise Sophie dans leloignement. Du cote de la nouvelle Rue de Frederic. Dediee a Son Excellence, Monsieur de Blumenthal, Ministre dEtate & de guerre, Vice President et Ministre dirigent du Directoire General & superieur des finances de geurre et des Domaines du Roi, Seigneur hereditaire de Steinhovet & C. : X. / Desine et grave par J. Rosenberg a Berlin en 1781.
Creator
Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : par ses tres humbles Serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie., [1781]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 51.9 x 73.6 cm.
Description
View of the Hackescher Markt in Berlin looking towards the Sophienkirch; figures in the foreground; market stalls in the middle ground.
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.