[BAMBERG CARNIVAL PROCESSION] – WENGEN, Gottfried Durst von (fl. 1833)

Лот 257
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Лот 257 | [BAMBERG CARNIVAL PROCESSION] – WENGEN, Gottfried Durst von (fl. 1833)
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
[BAMBERG CARNIVAL PROCESSION] – WENGEN, Gottfried Durst von (fl. 1833)

Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833. Bamberg: Verlag der Drausnicksche Buch und Kunsthandlung, [1833].

A very rare survival, complete with the plates untrimmed and loose in the original wrappers as originally issued. The finely coloured lithographs depict the costumed participants in a pre-Lenten carnival procession at Bamberg on Shrove Monday, 1833. In the procession, people are dressed up as magicians, harlequins, savages, bandits, Tartars; figures from contemporary comic opera such as Rumelpuff, the Fake Catalani, and Staberl; the Bridesmaid from 'der Freischütz'; an old haggling Jew; an elegantly dressed French lady; a burly tyrolean; a grand carriage with a brass band; a knight in shining armour, etc., all in procession. Fastnacht is a carnival of Christian-Germanic origins held in various parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the beginning of Lent. It is an occasion for celebration in advance of the sobriety and solemnity which would follow during Lent. The Fastnacht celebrations were, therefore, colourful affairs with feasting, processions, dancing, drinking and fancy dress, as depicted in these finely coloured plates. Exceptionally rare complete – we have found two copies recorded in libraries, both bound with the printed wrapper used as title. Bobins IV, 1250; Lipperheide Sn 27 (27 plates only); not in Colas.



Folio (438 x 259mm) 28 lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, of which 11 in oblong format (largest approx. 230 x 435mm) and 17 in quarto format (approx. 220 x 185mm) untrimmed as issued, numbered 1-28, captioned below but unsigned; some plates are watermarked ’S H’ (plate 20 with small smudge). Loose as issued in brown paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover within decorative border (wrappers a little spotted, but both the wrappers and prints in a fine state of preservation); contained in a modern grey box with title printed on front cover.





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