Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 1 from the series 'Tabernacle'

Franz Xavier Habermann|Martin Engelbrecht

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

Ornament print with a design for a tabernacle in frontal elevation. The tabernacle has a symmetrical, late-Baroque shape, but is decorated with delicate rocaille ornaments and is characterized by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments upon which a burning heart and Latin cross have been placed. 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

Franz Xavier Habermann|Martin Engelbrecht

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014