Shepherd and Shepherdess

18th/19th century

Christian August Gunther, Artist Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, Artist

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Title Shepherd and Shepherdess

Artwork Date 18th/19th century

Makers Christian August Gunther (Artist) German, 1759-1824 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (Artist) German, 1712-1774

Medium Engraving printed in black on laid paper

Dimensions plate: 16 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. 42.2 x 56.5 cm sheet: 20 x 27 3/4 in. 50.8 x 70.4 cm

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1991.79

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Inscriptions In plate, lower left: Dietrich pinx.; lower right: Gunther Sculp.; lower center: De la Gallerie Ele de Dresde.; in black ink, lower left of the bottom margin: Christian Wilhelm Ernest Dietrich; lower center: Shepard + Shepardess -(?)-1740.; lower right of the bottom margin: 1712-1774. / Weimar; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard. / 1892; in pencil within the plate mark, lower center: 36

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Woermann, Karl, CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY IN DRESDEN: Dresden: Wilhelm Hoffmann's Fine Art Works, 1899, p 320.

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