Lot Essay
This and the previous lot both seem to be preliminary studies for the same series of prints, though of different size.
The Village Mögeldorff on the River Pegnitz near Nuremberg
Details
Attributed to Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650)
The Village Mögeldorff on the River Pegnitz near Nuremberg
with inscriptions '124' and '98' (?) and with inscription 'Emanuel Meurant' on the reverse of the mount
pen and brown ink, grey-blue wash, brown ink framing lines, framed
130 x 182 mm.
The Village Mögeldorff on the River Pegnitz near Nuremberg
with inscriptions '124' and '98' (?) and with inscription 'Emanuel Meurant' on the reverse of the mount
pen and brown ink, grey-blue wash, brown ink framing lines, framed
130 x 182 mm.
Engraved
The subject was etched, by Merian, as one of a series of six landscapes near Nuremberg, L.H. Wütrich, Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d.Ae., Basel, 1966, I, p. 50, no. 230, fig. 109.