Kupfer-Bibel, volume II

Provenance

Bookplate of Georg August, Count of Erbach; bookplate of Kenneth Mackenzie; The Horticultural Society of New York; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-28 April 1987, no. 324); purchased (via Quaritch Ltd.) by NGA, 1987.

Kupfer-Bibel, volume II

Füssli, Johann Melchior

published 1731

Accession Number

1987.26.2

Medium

1 vol: ill: title page, 3 pages introductory text (unnumbered), 396 pages text (numbered 277-672), 193 engravings (numbered 175-364 with 3 additional plates); plates are engraved by various artists after Füssli; border designs are after Preissler

Dimensions

page size: 38.1 × 24.8 cm (15 × 9 3/4 in.) | book: 39 × 26.5 × 7 cm (15 3/8 × 10 7/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Volume

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Epstein Family Fund