Design for a Pulpit, Plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Pulpit Designs

Martin Engelbrecht|Carl Pier

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

Design for a Pulpit, Plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Pulpit Designs — Martin Engelbrecht|Carl Pier

Ornament print with a design for a suspended pulpit shown in frontal elevation. The pulpit is characterized by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments leading up to the all-seeing eye of God, surrounded by rays of sunshine. 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
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