Johann Heinrich Rode (um 1727-1759), Series of four prints with putti practicing in different arts, 1756, Copper Engraving

Beschreibung: Johann Heinrich Rode (um 1727 - 1759), Series of four prints with putti practicing in different arts, 1756, Copper Engraving

Technique: Copper Engraving on paper
Size: Sheet 1, Baking: 11,3 x 15 cm, Platte: 7,9 x 10,8 cm; Sheet 2, Writing: 11.8 x 15,1 cm, Platte: 7,9 x 10,8 cm; Sheet 3, Painting: 11,9 x 15,2 cm, Platte: 7,7 x 10,9 cm; latt 4, Drawing: 12,1 x 14,8 cm, Platte: 7,8 x 10,9 cm
Inscription: Below the image inscribed in the plate and signed and dated on the first sheet

Condition: Somewhat browned and stained, some, partly coloured stains at margins, partly soiled, at the platemark paper partly broken due to printing. Irregularly trimmed. Verso partly remains of old mounting.

Description: Four copperplate engravings with scenes of putti practicing the arts: one tries to bake figurines of children on a round clay oven, another lolls around on books while trascribing a book, a third uses a palette and easel as a hobbyhorse and one draws while the other has to serve as an underlay. Johann Heinrich Rode created these four humorous scenes after drawings by his brother Bernhard at the age of thirty, three years before his early death.

Keywords: Romanticism, Figure, Genre, Caricature, Germany, Berlin, Paris, Artist Family, Engraver, Zeihner, Humor, Caricature, Putto, Nude, Figure

Zustand: Somewhat browned and stained, some, partly coloured stains at margins, partly soiled, at the platemark paper partly broken due to printing. Irregularly trimmed. Verso partly remains of old mounting. Hinweise: Romanticism, Figure, Genre, Caricature, Germany, Berlin, Paris, Artist Family, Engraver, Zeihner, Humor, Caricature, Putto, Nude, Figure Abmessungen: Sheet 1, Baking: 11,3 x 15 cm, Platte: 7,9 x 10,8 cm; Sheet 2, Writing: 11.8 x 15,1 cm, Platte: 7,9 x 10,8 cm; Sheet 3, Painting: 11,9 x 15,2 cm, Platte: 7,7 x 10,9 cm; latt 4, Drawing: 12,1 x 14,8 cm, Platte: 7,8 x 10,9 cm Name des Künstlers: Johann Heinrich Rode (c.1727-1759) Medium: Copper Engraving on paper