An elderly man with an aquiline nose who has "a good idea". Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J.F. de Göz.

  • Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.
Date:
[1783]
Reference:
2954121i
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Description

A portrait? He is shown looking to right, and his words are engraved on a scroll on the left

Publication/Creation

Se vend à Paris (rue St. Jacque à l'Esperance) : ché Brichet, [1783]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 15.6 x 11.6 cm

Lettering

J'ai une bonne idée. R. Brichet sculp. 1783 Bears number: 31

Edition

[State with the author's line of J. F. de Göz almost entirely erased from the left side of the plate, and the publisher's line of Brichet added on the right].

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, département des estampes. Tome III, Paris 1934, p. 370, Brichet no. 7 (the set)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2954121i

Notes

The series of which this is a part is cited as: "Exércices d'imagination de differens caractéres et formes humaines", Paris 1784, and as "Die heutige sichtbare Körperwelt oder 100 Charakter ( - ) Züge derer denen Menschen [...] äusserlich kennbar werdender, innerlich verborgener guter - oder böser leidenschafftlicher Beschaffenheiten [...] Erfunden und gezeichnet von Joseph Franz von Göz. Herausgegeben und zu finden bey der gemeinschaftlichen Handlung der kays. franziszischen Reichsakademie Fr. K. und W. in Augsburg [...]", 1783-1785
Forms a symmetrical contrasting pair with no. 32 in the series (Wellcome Library no. 2957105i), which has on the right side a scroll engraved "Et moi je l'ai trouvée"

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