MANSFELD, Johan Georg (1764-1817)

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Lot 80 | MANSFELD, Johan Georg (1764-1817)
MANSFELD, Johan Georg (1764-1817)

Abbildung der Neuen Adjustirung der K.K. Armee. Vienna, Tranquillo Mollo, [1796-1798].

One of the finest military costume books of the period with dedication portrait of the Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1793-1875), later Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria. The portrait depicts Ferdinand I as a young boy, confirming the traditional dating of this work to the end of the 18th century. Ferdinand I was familiar with the engraver, lithographer, and watercolourist Johan Georg Mansfeld from a watercolour portrait of the Duchess of Oldenburg in his possession. In this impressive volume Mansfeld captures the military costume of the period, illustrations after the artist Vincez Georg Kininger (1767-1853), a professor of drawing and etching at the Vienna Academy. The work was later re-issued sometime around or just after 1800, without the portrait and without the soldiers' pigtails. Bobins II, 1508; Colas, 1609 'Très belle suite fort rare complète', erroneously calling for 44 plates only; Glasser, 142; De Ridder, 53.



Folio (508 x 367mm). Engraved title within decorative aquatint border, uncoloured stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Archduke Ferdinand Karl by Mansfeld, 46 contemporary hand-coloured aquatint plates, all within border, by Mansfeld after Kininger, each plate lettered 'C.P.S.C.M.' on lower margin and coloured, no. 1-46 (light spotting and finger-soiling mostly confined to margins, plate 14 unevenly trimmed). Marbled half calf drop-spine, spine gilt in compartments, each with decorative ornaments, and gilt lettering reading 'King of Prussias Regiments', with marbled endpapers (worn corners, extremities lightly rubbed); contained in a modern cloth box with leather label reading 'Military Uniforms 1794', lettered in gilt (worn corners, marks to surface). Provenance: Lord Dalkeith (1772-1819, Earl of Dalkeith and later 4th Duke of Buccleuch, ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper) — Duke of Buccleuch (armorial bookplate).





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