The Triumph of Truth over Envy, Plate 24
Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink with gold leaf
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
Accession Number
1939.169
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About this artwork
As drawings became increasingly sought-after items by collectors in the 1700s, enterprising printmakers created ever-more convincing reproductions for the expanding market. Aquatint, a relatively new etching technique at the time, allowed artists like Maria Catharina Prestel to more faithfully replicate the wide range of tones common in wash drawings. This is visible, for example, in the swirling clouds surrounding the raised fist of Truth. Prestel also developed a technique to translate the gol...