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[The Satyr and the Peasant.]
[The Satyr and the Peasant.]
Dutius 1764 [Etched by Christian Dietrich, after Cornelis Bega?].
Fine etching. 140 x 170mm (5½ x 6¾"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper at corners.
A fine impression showing a satyr chastises a peasant for blowing on his food, after he had blown on his hands to keep them warm. The satyr says ''I can no longer consider you as a friend, a fellow who with the same breath blows hot and cold". Based on one of Æsop's fables.
Linck 100.39.
[Ref: 57789]   £360.00   (£432.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Hut near the Tunnel.][Set of Three States.]
[The Hut near the Tunnel.][Set of Three States.]
Dietrey f.
[n.d., c.1751]
Set of three etchings. Plate: 140 x 85mm, (5½ x 3¼"). Small margins. Some foxing and marks.
A very scarce set of three different states of a landscape view showing a hillside road leading to a tunnel in a hill by German artist and engraver Christian Wilhelm Ersnt Dietrich (1712-1774). Dietrich was a major German artist in the eighteenth century, having studied under his father a court painter he was sent to Dresden to study under Theile, during his lifetime he served as court painted to Augustus II, King of Poland, Keeper of the Dresden Gallery and Professor of the Academy of Arts, Dresden amongst other posts.
J. Linck: 140.
[Ref: 40768]   £320.00  
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