TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895) - photo 1
TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895) - photo 2
TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895) - photo 3

TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895)

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Lot 276 | TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895)
TIMM, Georg Wilhelm, [also known as Vasily Fyodorovich] (1820-1895)

Costumes Russes, desinées d’après nature. Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris: Daziario and Lemercier, [1843-1844].

Very rare suite of plates by the Baltic-German painter, lithographer and ceramic designer, Georg Wilhelm Timm. Son of the mayor of Riga, Timm first studied art in Riga, before moving to St Petersburg, enrolling at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1839, and then moved to Paris where he worked under the direction of Horace Vernet (see lots xxx). He travelled extensively throughout Russia, accompanying Tsar Nicholas I on a visit to Finland in 1852. The work is often found incomplete – RBH only records 4 copies selling at auction, all in varying states of completeness, with the largest complement of plates being the Diaghilev-Lifar copy selling at Sotheby’s Monaco in 1975 with 24 plates. Bobins I, 218 (erroneously calling for the full complement of 28 plates); Colas 2880; Lipperheide Kaa 53.



Oblong quarto (264 x 351mm). Lithographic title printed in purple and gilt, 24 (of 28) numbered lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and with captions in Russian and French (without the 4 unnumbered plates, variable light spotting, plates 6 and 15 lightly browned) .Contemporary green boards, title lettered in gilt on upper cover (sometime rebacked with green straight-grained morocco, extremities rubbed, corners more heavily with some slight loss). Provenance: Joseph Harrison Jr (1810-1874; American mechanical engineer, financier and art collector, built steam locomotives for Russia, and was decorated by Czar Nicholas I for completing the St Petersburg-Moscow Railway in 1850; bookplate on front pastedown, and thence by descent to his son:) — Theodore Harrison (bookplate on rear pastedown).





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Place of origin:Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia
Category:Printed book
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