Boog van Drusus en Poort van de H. Sebastiaan, Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1794

Title(s)

Boog van Drusus en Poort van de H. Sebastiaan
Arco di Druso, ora, Porta di St. Sebastiano (title on object)
Italiaanse landschappen (series title)
Mahlerisch-radirte Prospecte von Italien (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1951-890

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 20

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (mentioned on object)
• Johann Friedrich Frauenholz

Place

Rome

Dating

1794

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 380 mm × width 283 mm

What

• arch, archivolt ~ architecture
• landscape with ruins (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Where

• Boog van Drusus

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1951

Copyright

Public domain

• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, Dl. 2, p. 631, cat.nr. 20
• Antony Griffiths & Frances Carey, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, British Museum 1994, no. 89.