Design for an Altar, Plate 4 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars

Carl Pier|Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Martin Engelbrecht

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

Design for an Altar, Plate 4 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars — Carl Pier|Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Martin Engelbrecht

Ornament print with a design for an altar in frontal elevation. The design shows two variants for the base with a projecting altar table. The top is slightly asymmetrical and elongated. The left side of the altar is flanked two candelabras the structure is crowned by 2 cherubs 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
Carl Pier|Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Martin Engelbrecht
Date
Printed ca. 1750–56
Medium
Etching
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014
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