Frontispiece for Heft IV of "Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet", Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterik, 1801–05 and Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1821

ca. 1796

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching with black chalk; touched proof impression
Dimensions: plate: 17 13/16 x 14 1/16 in. (45.2 x 35.7 cm) sheet: 21 1/16 x 15 1/2 in. (53.5 x 39.4 cm)
Collection no.: 2009.55
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Frontispiece for Heft IV of "Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet", Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterik, 1801–05 and Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1821. Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2009. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Frontispiece for Heft IV of "Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet", Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterik, 1801–05 and Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1821 — Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. ca. 1796.

Medium: Etching with black chalk; touched proof impression. Dimensions: plate: 17 13/16 x 14 1/16 in. (45.2 x 35.7 cm) sheet: 21 1/16 x 15 1/2 in. (53.5 x 39.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2009.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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