About the Artwork
Shepherd and Shepherdess
18th/19th century
Christian August Gunther (Artist) German, 1759-1824 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (Artist) German, 1712-1774
Engraving printed in black on laid paper
plate: 16 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. 42.2 x 56.5 cm sheet: 20 x 27 3/4 in. 50.8 x 70.4 cm
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892
1991.79
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Markings
In plate, lower left: Dietrich pinx.; lower right: Gunther Sculp.; lower center: De la Gallerie Ele de Dresde.; in black ink, lower left of the bottom margin: Christian Wilhelm Ernest Dietrich; lower center: Shepard + Shepardess -(?)-1740.; lower right of the bottom margin: 1712-1774. / Weimar; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard. / 1892; in pencil within the plate mark, lower center: 36
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Woermann, Karl, CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY IN DRESDEN: Dresden: Wilhelm Hoffmann's Fine Art Works, 1899, p 320.
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Christian August Gunther; after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, Shepherd and Shepherdess, 18th/19th century, Engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.79.
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