The Triumph of Truth over Envy1781
Maria Katharina Prestel made this in 1781, aged 34. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of etching and aquatint, from three plates, in brown and black, with metallic gold, on ivory laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maria Katharina Prestel made this in 1781, aged 34. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Aquatint
- Resin dust is fused to the plate and bitten with acid, so the plate prints areas of tone, like a wash, rather than lines.
- Etching
- The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Maria Katharina Prestel
German, 1747–1794
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2024.155
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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