Collection Schoolmistress

Schoolmistress

Johann Georg Wille, Artist Pierre Alexandre Wille, Artist

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About the Artwork

Schoolmistress

1771

Johann Georg Wille (Artist) German, 1715-1808 Pierre Alexandre Wille (Artist) French, 1748-1821

Engraving printed in black ink on wove paper

Plate: 9 3/4 × 7 1/8 inches (24.8 × 18.1 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (35.2 × 28.6 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1262

This work is in the public domain.

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Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: Gravé par I. G. Wille Graveur du Roi Inscribed, lower right: d'après le Tableau de son Fils P. A. Wille. Inscribed, lower center: MAÎTRESSE D'ECOLE. | Dédié a Monsieur la Baron de Dalberg, | chanoine de la Métropole de Mayence et des Cathedrales | de Worms et de Wurzbourg, Conseiller privé de S. A. Elect: de | Mayence son Vicaire General, et Gouverneur de la Ville et | du Pays d'Erfort. Inscribed, lower left edge of plate: A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins. Inscribed, lower right: Par son très humble et très Obeisant | Serviteur Wille.

Stamped, in purple, verso: JAMES E. SCRIPPS

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August 1885, N.C. Perkins. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Johann Georg Wille; after Pierre Alexandre Wille, Schoolmistress, 1771, engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1262.

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