Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 2 from the series 'Tabernacle'

Martin Engelbrecht|Franz Xavier Habermann

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 rocaille ornaments. The structure has a deep central niche flanked by pillars, and is crowned by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments upon which a Latin cross is 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

Martin Engelbrecht|Franz Xavier Habermann

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014