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Print, A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves

This is a Print. It was after Franz Edmund Weirotter. It is dated ca. 1780-1800 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Bruno Lasker and Mrs. Bruno Lasker.

Its dimensions are

20.8 × 26.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed, lower left: "J. Weirotter delin." Below: "A Small Fort upon the Rhine below the City of Cleves. ...Petit Fort sur le Rhin au Dessous de Cleves."/"London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street." At top right, the number "5."

Cite this object as

Print, A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves; After Franz Edmund Weirotter (Austrian, 1730 - 1771); England; engraving on paper; 20.8 × 26.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.); 1957-41-168

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