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Print

second half eighteenth century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching on paper


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Paper, etching, colour printing
Brief description
I. G. Boeck [Johann Gottfried Böck, 1748-1808] after Jean-Antoine Watteau and Gabriel Huquier, musical trophy, second half eighteenth century, etching; with colour border printed with two plates. Printed and published in Germany, probably Augsburg.
Physical description
Etching on paper
Dimensions
  • Height: 26.3cm
  • Width: 19.2cm
Object history
This design for a musical trophy, composed of 'rustic' instruments, such as bagpipes, is an eighteenth-century German reduced, reverse copy of a plate from an earlier French ornament suite, 'Livre nouveau de différents Trophées inventez par A. Watteau et gravé par Huquier', which was designed by Watteau and etched and published by Huquier in Paris in 1735.

The German printmaker has also added a colour printed border and swag in yellow, to frame the original composition.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1912, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1913
Collection
Accession number
E.745-1912

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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