Lot 3654 - A182 Old Master Prints - Friday, 22. September 2017, 11.00 AM
GEISSLER, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB
(Augsburg 1729 - 1814 Geneva)
Depiction of six fossilized snails and mussels on a sheet. Design for an engraving.
Pen, black chalk, watercolour. The framing lines in black pen. Inscribed and numbered in brown pen within the image.
Signed, inscribed and dated in brown pen lower left: C.G.Geissler Pinxit. Geneve 1778.
28 x 44.8 cm.
Together with: The associated engraving for which this depiction served as design. - This work is probably related to Geissler's activities for the Zurich naturalist Johannes Gessner (1709-1790), whose natural history collection Geissler inventoried with drawings.
CHF 500 / 700 | (€ 520 / 720)
Sold for CHF 1 063 (including buyer’s premium)
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