Poort van de H. Jan, Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1790

Title(s)

Poort van de H. Jan
Porta di Giovanni (title on object)
Italiaanse landschappen (series title)
Mahlerisch-radirte Prospecte von Italien (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1951-892

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 22

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

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

Place

Rome

Dating

1790

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 283 mm × width 383 mm

What

• gate, entrance
• landscape with ruins (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Where

• Porta San Giovanni

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. 22
• Antony Griffiths & Frances Carey, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, British Museum 1994, no. 89.