Joseph Werner II

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Artist/Maker	Ertinger, Franz (engraver) Werner, Joseph (artist)
Place of origin	France (printed)

Self-portrait, half-length, facing slightly left and pointing to a painting on an ease.

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Categories	Portraits Prints
Object type	Self portrait
Title	Joseph Werner II (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Engraving Printing Ink Engraving
Brief description	Self portrait of Joseph Werner pointing to a painting on an easel. Engraving by Franz Ertinger, the frontispiece to a set of 10 plates illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1662-1700
Physical description	Self-portrait, half-length, facing slightly left and pointing to a painting on an ease.
Dimensions	Cut height: 21cm Cut width: 13.3cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Style	French School
Marks and inscriptions	'Indomitum fraenans Genius Virtute Leonem / Auspice picture, ad templum perducit honoris' (Lettered with 2 lines of verse) 'Josephus Wernerus junior Roman J A le Poutre, Franc: Ertinger fecit' (Lettered)
Credit line	Given by Mr E. J. Allen
Object history	The miniature portrait from which this engraving was made is in the Department of Paintings, P.168-1931.
Subjects depicted	Man Artist Easel Werner, Joseph
Associated object	P.168-1931 (Original)
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.190-1952

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O593723/joseph-werner-ii-self-portrait-ertinger-franz/

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