Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 1 from the series 'Tabernacle'

Franz Xavier Habermann German
 Publisher Martin Engelbrecht German

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Ornament print with a design for a tabernacle in frontal elevation. The tabernacle has a symmetrical, late-Baroque shape, but is decorated with delicate rocaille ornaments and is characterized by a baldachin of rocaille ornaments upon which a burning heart and Latin cross have been placed. 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.

Design for a Tabernacle, Plate 1 from the series 'Tabernacle', Franz Xavier Habermann (German, Habelschwerdt, Glatz 1721–1796 Augsburg), Etching

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