Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 4 from the series 'Tabernacle'
Ornament print with a design for a tabernacle in frontal elevation. The tabernacle is slightly asymmetrical and is decorated with rocaille ornaments. The structure has a deep central niche, and is crowned by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments supporting the IHS-monogram. This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 4 from the series 'Tabernacle'
- Artist: Franz Xavier Habermann (German, Habelschwerdt, Glatz 1721–1796 Augsburg)
- Publisher: Martin Engelbrecht (German, Augsburg 1684–1756 Augsburg)
- Date: Printed ca. 1750–56
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Overall: 8 7/16 × 13 3/4 in. (21.5 × 35 cm)
- Classifications: Albums, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.97.84
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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