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) / Franz Edmund Weirotter
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Record Details
- 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
- Franz Edmund Weirotter
- Artist Nationality
- Austrian
- Medium and Support
- engraving in black ink on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1761-1765
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Austria (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Austria (nation)
- Inscription
- TOP PLATE. Printed above image, top left: 7
- Printed below image, center: F. E. Weirotter fecit
- BOTTOM PLATE. Printed above image, top left: 6
- Signed on plate by artist, top left: Weirotter
- Dimensions
- Each: 48.9 cm x 32.07 cm (19 1/4 in. x 12 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Secondary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Secondary Object Type
- leaf
- 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.
- 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.
- Primary Keywords
- dwellings
- genre scenes
- holland (historical region)
- landscapes
- riverbanks
- travelers
- windmill
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- buildings and the land
- business and industry
- components of bodies of water
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- netherlands (nation)
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by activity
- residential structures
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- windmills
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2487 x 3824
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2007/2.114
- Link to this Item
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"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); ; Franz Edmund Weirotter." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2007-sl-2.114/2007_2_114.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.