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Balthasar Anton Dunker
1746-1807
A Foundry with Smelters at Work
1772
Red chalk on paper.
10 1/16 x 14 1/16 inches (256 x 356 mm)
Purchased on the Director's Fund in memory of Werner Abegg.
1986.63
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Inscribed and dated on old mount in pen and brown ink, "Fonderie de metaux dessinée par B.A. Dunker. / 1772".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in a shield.
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Richard Day, Ltd., London.
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Bibliography:
Old Master Drawings of the French School, 1480-1880, Baskett and Day, London, 1986, no. 32, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 336-337.
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