ID: 700001688 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001688	Record Type: Movable Work

[Two monks in contemplation] (etching (print); Karl Vittinghof (German painter and printmaker, 1772-1826); Published: 1809; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2860-487; 860487; accession number: 2010.PR.13*)

Note: Title devised; Before a grotto set in a wooded landscape, one monk stands contemplating a skull, while a second lies on the ground near a cross, reading. Publication: 1809.

Titles:

[Two monks in contemplation] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

[Two monks in contemplation]; [graphic] / gezeichnet und radirt von Karl von Vittinghoff 809. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1809

Creator Display:

Karl Vittinghof (German painter and printmaker, 1772-1826) [preferred,GRISC]

etcher Vittinghoff, Karl, Baron von (German painter and printmaker, 1772-1826) [500294232]

Seiler, Carl Wilhelm Anton (German painter, 1846-1921) [500028467]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2860-487; 860487; accession number: 2010.PR.13*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: platemark 33 x 26 cm, on sheet 49 x 33.5 cm

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	monks (people) [300025765]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, religious (people)) (AAT)

	death [300151836]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events) (AAT)

	landscapes (representations) [300015636]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

Provenance: Johann Nepomuk Seiler, Munich; rumbl; Purchase.

Inscriptions: gezeichnet und radirt von Karl von Vittinghoff 809.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Two monks in contemplation]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 860487
[Two monks in contemplation]; [graphic] / gezeichnet und radirt von Karl von Vittinghoff 809.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)