Couriers Riding by Night past Sleeping Herdsmen
Georg Philipp Rugendas I. (1666–1742)
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- Material/technique
- mezzotint
- Measurements
- 511 × 686 mm
- Acquisition
- historical family property
- Artists/makers/authors
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I.
- Inventory number
- GR 3305
- Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
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Bez. unten links: Georg Philipp Rugendas Pict. inv. del. fec. et exc. Aug. V.
Bez. unten links: Non mora, non requies datur hic, res urget anhelos / Concubio Noctis mox celerare vias. Si fas, ut peragant per amica silentia Lunae / Cursum, defessis suave videtur iter.
Bez. unten rechts: Wan wichtige Geschäfft, in Kriegs= u. Friedens zeiten, / Nicht leiden den Verzug, mus auch zu Mitternacht. Manch reissender die Post mit viel strappaze reite / Und wird beÿ solcher eil an keine schlaff gedacht.
- Provenance
- historical family property
- Iconography
- Shepherd scene , Riding scene
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