Design for an Altar, Plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Carl Pier|Martin Engelbrecht

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

Ornament print with a design for an altar in frontal elevation. The design shows two variants for the base below the altar table. The top is slightly asymmetrical, but does not apear to show variants. It is flanked by large candelabras on either side and is crowned by a cherub surrounded by rays of sunlight. 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

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Carl Pier|Martin Engelbrecht

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014