Artist Wolfgang Kilian, German, 1581-1662
Title
  • Festivities in Nuremberg at the Occasion of the Treaty of Westphalia
Date 1649
Medium engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Image (and sheet, trimmed within plate mark): 21 3/8 × 26 3/4 inches (54.3 × 67.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S658
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower right corner: Wolffg. Kilian | Sculpsit.
Marks Stamp, in black, verso: K.F.F. von Nagler (Lugt 2529)
Stamp, in black, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Lugt 1606) [over- stamped by a brown rectangle filled with diagonal lines]
Stamp, in brown, verso, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (variant of Lugt 234)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Aigentliche abbildung des Fried und Freuden Mahls, welches... Carol-Gustav Pfalzgrav beij Rhein etc. nach Abhandlung der Praelimartractaten, in... Nurnberg auff dem Rathaus den 25 september Anno 1649 gehalten. [followed in 6 columns by the enumeration of 1-22 and 1-22 representatives of both parties]
Inscribed, in pencil below the black Berlin museum stamp, verso: DP | L
Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner, verso: G
Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (Berlin, Germany);
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)