[MENZEL, Adolf von (1815-1905)]

Lot 261
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 2 000
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Lot 261 | [MENZEL, Adolf von (1815-1905)]
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
[MENZEL, Adolf von (1815-1905)]

Quadrilles du Carnaval à Berlin. Berlin: A. Asher, 1836.

Rare and magnificent suite of untrimmed plates depicting the costumes of the Berlin court, each in elaborate frames in brown penwork by Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905). The costumes shown here were worn on the event of a ball held on the 8th March 1826, held at the Royal Playhouse in the presence of the Royal Family (Lipperheide). Von Menzel was renowned for his historical and realistic drawings and watercolours and he had his first major retrospective at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1884. Bobins II, 452; Bock 143-145; Hiler 729; Lipperheide Sbb 33.



Folio (601 x 410mm). Lithographic title and 19 plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, enhanced with watercolour and framed in decorative borders in brown ink (repaired tears and some staining to title page, marginal spotting and tiny marginal repaired tears to plates). Original lithographic front wrapper, small inserted contents leaf in manuscript (repaired tears to wrapper, and pencil annotation below publication date); 19th century orange boards, with partial morocco label lettered in gilt on spine (extremities rubbed, chips to spine and missing end of morocco label affecting gilt lettering).





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