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This and 149 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists.

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Print, Perseus and Andromeda

This is a Print. It was designed by Michael Hartwagner and print maker: Michael Hartwagner. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Michael Hartwagner. Inv. del. et Sculpit. Monachy

It is inscribed

Printed upper left, in plate: 20; Printed lower center, in plate: Perseus Amdromachen tutatur ab hoste marino / has illi Vires suppeditavit amor; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 125

Cite this object as

Print, Perseus and Andromeda; Designed by Michael Hartwagner (German, d. 1776); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-126

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