A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
VAT included (see terms) | Exclude VAT
![[A dancing bear in an Italianate village.]](jpegs/38796.jpg)
[A dancing bear in an Italianate village.]
[by Christian Bernhard Rode?]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching. Image 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A bear dances, held by a chain on a nose ring, with the music provided by a man playing pagpipes, watched by a throng of villagers surrounded by farm animals. Behind is a Doric portico.
[Ref: 38796] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[by Christian Bernhard Rode?]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching. Image 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A bear dances, held by a chain on a nose ring, with the music provided by a man playing pagpipes, watched by a throng of villagers surrounded by farm animals. Behind is a Doric portico.
[Ref: 38796] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Gunpowder Discovered by the Monk Schwartz.
B. Rode Pinxit [c.1820]
Lithograph, scarce, sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Whatman 1821 watermark; trimmed; hole upper left.
The Franciscan monk Berthold Schwarz, who invented gunpowder in 1359, experimenting with explosive chemicals. Lithograph copied from a 1784 etching by Christian Berhard Rode (1725-97), which was one of the didactic illlustrations he produced for Johann Matthias Schröckh’s 'Allgemeine Weltgeschichte für Kinder', (Leipzig, 1781). The Devil's head on left.
[Ref: 41287] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
B. Rode Pinxit [c.1820]
Lithograph, scarce, sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Whatman 1821 watermark; trimmed; hole upper left.
The Franciscan monk Berthold Schwarz, who invented gunpowder in 1359, experimenting with explosive chemicals. Lithograph copied from a 1784 etching by Christian Berhard Rode (1725-97), which was one of the didactic illlustrations he produced for Johann Matthias Schröckh’s 'Allgemeine Weltgeschichte für Kinder', (Leipzig, 1781). The Devil's head on left.
[Ref: 41287] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)