Beschrijving
Portrait of Frederick the Great, also Frederick II (1712-1786), monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786.
Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 287 x 188 mm. Engraved by William Colley Wrankmore after Johann Heinrich Ramberg. Published in Leipzig by A.H. Payne, c. 1826-1840.
William Colley Wrankmore was a British printmaker. Little is known about his life, except he was active around 1836.
Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 – 1840) was a German painter and printmaker.
In fair condition, foxing in the margins, margin edges browned, top margin edge uneven.
