Lezende man met insektenhoofd, Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, 1772

Title(s)

Lezende man met insektenhoofd
Pour raillerie (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2003-208

Catalogue reference

• Nagler Künstlerlexikon 17

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
• after design by: Johann Rudolph Schellenberg

Dating

1772

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 76 mm × width 103 mm

What

• political caricatures and satires
• animals with human head
• anthropomorphic beings (legendary or not) with heads, limbs or organs of an abnormal number, in abnormal places or of an abnormal shape)
• reading

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 31-May-2002

Copyright

Public domain

• Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Dl. 9, p. 177, cat.nr. 17