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[Costumes militaires des cantons de la Suisse. Die eidgenössischen Truppen. Basel: Franz Feyerabend, 1792.]
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[FEYERABEND, Franz (1755-1800)]
[Costumes militaires des cantons de la Suisse. Die eidgenössischen Truppen. Basel: Franz Feyerabend, 1792.]
Feyerabend's celebrated suite of plates of Swiss military costumes: 'cet suite est de la plus grande rareté.' (Colas; this suite is incredibly rare). Franz Feyerabend came of a family of artists (the landscape artists Augustin and Samuel Feyerabend were his brothers) and abandoned his initial studies of sculpture to pursue a career as a portraitist, landscape artist and later caricaturist, who worked in oils, watercolour and gouache, as well as print media. This suite of 26 plates, which is one of his best-known works, demonstrates his ability to combine these techniques to great effect: they were printed with a lightly-etched outline, and then heavily coloured in both wash and gouache by Feyerabend, creating an effect closer to that of an original gouache than of a print. The complete suite of plates is of great rarity, as Colas states: no copy can be traced in Anglo-American book auction records since 1902, nor in German book auction records since 1960. The work was reproduced by Emile Volmar as Officiers et soldats des differents contingents des cantons suisses reunis a Bale en 1792, dessines et colories ... d'apres les originaux de F. Feyerabend. Bobins III, 1138; Colas 1058; Hiler, p.312; Lonchamp 211.
Folio (363 x 240mm). 26 outlined etchings coloured by a contemporary hand (a number of plates closely cropped into plate mark, just touching image of plate 19, light scattered spotting). Modern quarter vellum over decorative printed paper boards (lightly soiled). Provenance: unidentified circular ink stamp monogram on front free endpaper and flyleaf — small erased stamp on flyleaf.
[Costumes militaires des cantons de la Suisse. Die eidgenössischen Truppen. Basel: Franz Feyerabend, 1792.]
Feyerabend's celebrated suite of plates of Swiss military costumes: 'cet suite est de la plus grande rareté.' (Colas; this suite is incredibly rare). Franz Feyerabend came of a family of artists (the landscape artists Augustin and Samuel Feyerabend were his brothers) and abandoned his initial studies of sculpture to pursue a career as a portraitist, landscape artist and later caricaturist, who worked in oils, watercolour and gouache, as well as print media. This suite of 26 plates, which is one of his best-known works, demonstrates his ability to combine these techniques to great effect: they were printed with a lightly-etched outline, and then heavily coloured in both wash and gouache by Feyerabend, creating an effect closer to that of an original gouache than of a print. The complete suite of plates is of great rarity, as Colas states: no copy can be traced in Anglo-American book auction records since 1902, nor in German book auction records since 1960. The work was reproduced by Emile Volmar as Officiers et soldats des differents contingents des cantons suisses reunis a Bale en 1792, dessines et colories ... d'apres les originaux de F. Feyerabend. Bobins III, 1138; Colas 1058; Hiler, p.312; Lonchamp 211.
Folio (363 x 240mm). 26 outlined etchings coloured by a contemporary hand (a number of plates closely cropped into plate mark, just touching image of plate 19, light scattered spotting). Modern quarter vellum over decorative printed paper boards (lightly soiled). Provenance: unidentified circular ink stamp monogram on front free endpaper and flyleaf — small erased stamp on flyleaf.
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