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The Book of the Sybil I
Uberbleibset der Sybyllischen Bücher, Gesammelt vor der Grotte von Cuma I.: An album of drawings illustrating proverbs and folk wisdom
inscribed with the title and 'Das Auge tragt zum leben nichts bei zum glücklidren Leben alles Ein Auge sieht mehr als zwey ohren hören. [with a drawing of an eye]' on two labels attached to the cover, with inscription 'H.W. Tischbein.' on the front flyleaf, the album with seventeen leaves and eleven attached drawings:
1. A family of peasants at a frontier post
2. Two hunters by a signpost in a mountainous landscape
3. A shrine in a moonlit street
4. Two figures by a volcano
5. A farmyard with a peasant feeding pigs
6. A fox attacking a goose and a mallard: a reworked acquatint after Tischbein
7. A shepherd loading a horse with lambs
8. Two children fighting over a bowl in a kitchen
9. A cat stealing fish from a kitchen table
10. Four peasants by a table in an inn
11. Two peasants with a haycart
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor heightened with white, in contemporary mounts
The album: 17¾ x 12 in. (449 x 308 mm.); The drawings approximately 12¾ x 8¼ in. (324 x 210 mm.); and Five drawings, one preparatory for number 4 (16)