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Dédié à Monsieur J: C: Mörikofer Médailleur.
Par son Ami et Serviteur C..d..M..[Weiretter.]
A Paris rue St. Honoré audessus de celle des Frondeurs. [n.d. c.1760.]
Rare etching. Plate 242 x 350mm. 9½ x 13¾".
A landscape of a thatched lakeside cottage, a washerwoman kneeling outside with two men preparing to fish, one holding a rod. In the distance can be seen a castle and a small fishing boat in the lake.
[Ref: 18817] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Frontispiece to Franz Edmund Weirotter's 'Zweite Folge von Gegenden und Bruchstuecken Alter Gebaeude']
Nach der Natur gezeichnet in Welschland und in Kupfer geaetzet von F.E. Weirotter
In Wien zu finden in der K.K. Zeichnung und Kupferstecherakademie [c.1767]
Etching, platemark 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"). Small loss in margins top right.
Title-page to one of several sets of volumes of etchings of Italian ruins by Austrian artist Franz Edmund Weirotter (1733-71). Weirotter visited Rome in 1763-4 where he met artist Henry Fuseli and the great writer on art Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and published his Italian views after he was appointed professor of landscape drawing at the Vienna Akademie in 1767.
[Ref: 41400] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Wide River Scene.] 4.
F.E. Weirotter fecit.
[n.d. c.1760.]
Etching with large margins. Plate 89 x 214mm (3½ x 8½").
Fishermen at the river with sailboats; in front a boat with a lowered square-sail, several figures. On the water further sailing and other boats; on the left a town. Sheet 4 of 6-sheet set of the "Six différantes vue s'aprés nature", dedicated to Jean Antoine de Peters.
[Ref: 31193] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
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