Accession Number
2007/2.114

Title
TOP: A Group of People Talking before the City Wall at the Edge of the Seine (Vor der Stadtmauer am Seine-Ufer diskutierende Menchengruppe), originally sheet 2 of Views of the Seine (Vues de la Seine) BOTTOM: In the Adriani Villa (In der Villa Adriani), originally sheet 11 in the folio First Folio of Regions and Old Fragmented Edifices (Erste Folge von Gegenden und Bruchstücken Alter Gebaeude)

Artist(s)
Franz Edmund Weirotter

Object Creation Date
1761-1765

Medium & Support
engraving in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions
19 1/4 in. x 12 5/8 in. ( Each: 48.9 cm x 32.07 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

Label copy
Franz Edmund Weirotter
Austria, 1733–1771
A Group of People Talking Before the City Wall at the Edge of the Seine (Vor der Stadtmauer am Seine-Ufer diskutierende Menchengruppe)
From the folio Views of the Seine
1761–1762
In the Adriani Villa (In der Villa Adriani)
From First Folio of Regions and Old Fragmented Edifices
1766, reprinted in 1775
Engravings
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection, 2007/2.114

Subject matter
TOP IMAGE. A river scene with a boat of travellers on the bottom right, a large thatched dwelling structure on the left, and a village and distant windmill in the background.
BOTTOM IMAGE. A riverscape with boulders and trees at the edge of a small river. Small travelers are present on a boulder to the left, and the water's edge at bottom right.

Physical Description
Left edge displays small tears, indicating former binding.
TOP IMAGE. A river tapers from the bottom edge to the right. In the right bottom corner a row boat is steered by a man standing with a pole, while a passenger sits astern. A thatched-roof structure, possibly multiple structures, dominates the left-hand side of the composition, while a windmill - identifying the scene as taking place in Holland - appears in the bottom right distance. Other structures line the left riverbank in the right corner, perhaps denoting a village. Boulders fill the bottom left.
BOTTOM IMAGE. A river fills the bottom right corner, along whose banks two or three travelers - one standing, one sitting, a third possibly lying down - rest with their gear. Boulders fill the bottom left, covered with scraggly vegetation. The largest boulder is topped by a nearly dead tree, while to the distant left another boulder is topped with another pair of travelers, one figure standing and pointing with walking stick, a second at his feet.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
black and white print

Additional Object Classification(s)
Unbound Work

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Landscapes
dwellings
holland
riverbanks
travelers (people by activity)
windmill