Design for a Pulpit, Plate 2 from an Untitled Series of Pulpit Designs

Martin Engelbrecht|Carl Pier

Printed ca. 1750–56 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Ornament print with a design for a suspended pulpit shown in frontal elevation. The pulpit is characterized by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments covered by drapery held up by 5 cherubs. This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.

Artist

Martin Engelbrecht|Carl Pier

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014