Good Friends

1772

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Johann Georg Wille, Adriaen van Ostade, and others

Good Friends

1772

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 301 x 233 mm. (11 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.) Image: 248 x 221 mm. (9 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1984.81.783

For an impression of an earlier state see 1984.81.775.

T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: above image, upper left, in plate "18te Platte 1773"; below iamge, lower left, in plate "Peint par Adrien Ostade."; below image, lower center, in plate four lines of text beginning "Dédié à Monsieur Le Baron de Thümmel / Conseiller [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi, de L. M. / Imp. et Royale en de S.M. le Roi de Danemark"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d state"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1590"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett