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The Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars
J.G. Mansfeld, 1796-98
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The Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars
J.G. Mansfeld, 1796-98
MANSFELD, Johann Georg (1764-1817). Abbildung der neuen Adjustirung der K.K. Armee. Vienna: Tranquillo Mollo & Co., [1796-98].
First issue of one of the finest military costume books of the period. The dedication portrait of the Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1793-1875, later Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria) as a young boy confirms the traditional dating of this work to the end of the 18th century. Ferdinand I was familiar with the engraver, lithographer, and watercolorist Johann Georg Mansfeld from a watercolor portrait of the Duchess of Oldenburg in his possession. The artist Vincenz Georg Kininger (1767-1853) was professor of drawing and etching at the Vienna Academy. The work was re-issued sometime around or just after 1800, without the portrait and without the soldiers’ pigtails. Colas erroneously calls for 44 plates only. Colas 1609; De Ridder 53; Glasser 142.
Folio (499 x 370mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, by and after Mansfeld; engraved title-page; 46 aquatints of soldiers and cavalrymen and their uniforms by Mansfeld after Kininger, each plate lettered "C.P.S.C.M." on lower margin (small area of loss on fore-edge of plate 2, repaired, browning and smudging to some plates, and occasional off-setting on back of plates). 19th-century half calf over marbled boards (light rubbing to extremities).
J.G. Mansfeld, 1796-98
MANSFELD, Johann Georg (1764-1817). Abbildung der neuen Adjustirung der K.K. Armee. Vienna: Tranquillo Mollo & Co., [1796-98].
First issue of one of the finest military costume books of the period. The dedication portrait of the Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1793-1875, later Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria) as a young boy confirms the traditional dating of this work to the end of the 18th century. Ferdinand I was familiar with the engraver, lithographer, and watercolorist Johann Georg Mansfeld from a watercolor portrait of the Duchess of Oldenburg in his possession. The artist Vincenz Georg Kininger (1767-1853) was professor of drawing and etching at the Vienna Academy. The work was re-issued sometime around or just after 1800, without the portrait and without the soldiers’ pigtails. Colas erroneously calls for 44 plates only. Colas 1609; De Ridder 53; Glasser 142.
Folio (499 x 370mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, by and after Mansfeld; engraved title-page; 46 aquatints of soldiers and cavalrymen and their uniforms by Mansfeld after Kininger, each plate lettered "C.P.S.C.M." on lower margin (small area of loss on fore-edge of plate 2, repaired, browning and smudging to some plates, and occasional off-setting on back of plates). 19th-century half calf over marbled boards (light rubbing to extremities).
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