Title
Vue du Nouveau Palais Royal de Belveder et de la ville de Potsdam, et des Environs, prise de la Montagne de Eiche. : grave par ordre de sa Majeste le Roi de Prusse. / peint par J.F. Meyer: 1771. ; grave par A.L. Kruger 1772.
Creator
Kruger, Andreas Ludwig, 1743-1822, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : Se vend chez Jean Morino & Compagnie: Marchands d'Estampes de l'Acad Royale a_ Berlin., [1772]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52.1 x 73.6 cm.
Description
Landscape view of Potsdam from Eiche; two figures sitting in the foreground looking out over the landscape; the New Palace on the right-hand side; church spires and buildings on the left; fields in the middle ground. Title broken by an etched device of a shield and crown supported by putti. Hand-coloured in gouache.
Place
Potsdam (Germany)
Additional information
Part of a series of ten views of Potsdam. Bound within a volume which contains 50 views including twenty of Berlin by Johann Georg Rosenberg, 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.