About the Artwork
Festivities in Nuremberg at the Occasion of the Treaty of Westphalia
1649
Wolfgang Kilian
1581-1662
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Image (and sheet, trimmed within plate mark): 21 3/8 × 26 3/4 inches (54.3 × 67.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S658
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right corner: Wolffg. Kilian | Sculpsit.
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Aigentliche abbildung des Fried und Freuden Mahls, welches... Carol-Gustav Pfalzgrav beij Rhein etc. nach Abhandlung der Praelimartractaten, in... Nurnberg auff dem Rathaus den 25 september Anno 1649 gehalten. [followed in 6 columns by the enumeration of 1-22 and 1-22 representatives of both parties] Inscribed, in pencil below the black Berlin museum stamp, verso: DP | L Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner, verso: G
Stamp, in black, verso: K.F.F. von Nagler (Lugt 2529) Stamp, in black, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Lugt 1606) [over- stamped by a brown rectangle filled with diagonal lines] Stamp, in brown, verso, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (variant of Lugt 234)
Provenance
Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (Berlin, Germany)
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wolfgang Kilian, Festivities in Nuremberg at the Occasion of the Treaty of Westphalia, 1649, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S658.
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