Title
Vue du Marche de lHopital et de la petite Eglise Ste Gertrude. Dediee a Son Excellence, Monsieur le Baron de Schulenbourg, Ministre dEtat & de Geurre, Vice-President du Grand-Directoire, Chef du Department des forets & de la societe maritime du Roi, President de la Banque, Chevalier de Lordre de laigle noire & Seigneur de Wittmund, Kehnert, Litz & Sandforth &c. : V. / Desine et grave a Berlin par Jean Rosenberg en 1783.
Creator
Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : par ses tres humbles serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie, Marchands d'Estampes., [1783]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52 x 73.7 cm.
Description
View of the Spittelmarkt in Berline with St Gertrude's Church at the centre with the hospital behind; market stalls to the right; figures with crates and boxes throughout the scene.
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.