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Figural and Animal pieces
Figuren u. Thierstücke. I.: An album of drawings of daily life and of the animal world
inscribed with the title on a lable attached to the cover, the album with forty-three leaves, many extensively inscribed with commentaries relating to twenty-four attached drawings:
1. Bier brauen und Brot backen geräth nicht alle Tage (Brewing beer and baking bread does not always turn out well): A peasant by a bread oven (inscribed and dated 'Alsterkrug der 13 Juni 1808')
2. A peasant by a sealed bread oven (dated '20 Dec 1814')
3. Der Hahn auf der Mistgrube (The rooster on the dung heap): A peasant feeding stock in a barn, a rooster to the left
4. Wer das kleine nicht ehrt, ist des Grossen nicht wert (Who needs not a penny will never have any): Peasants gathering firewod on the seashore
5. A dog and a cat fighting over three fish
6. Two peasants presented with a bill by an inn-keeper, after Jan Steen 7. In der Schenke (In the tavern): Six figures smoking in an inn
8. Four peasants playing cards in a tavern
9. Three of the Duke of Alva's soldiers playing cards, after Peter Quast
10. The preceding image repeated
11. Vereinte Kraft (United Strength): Three peasants lifting a felled trunk, two horses to the left
12. Der Sonnenstrahl (The Sunbeam): A girl peeling potatoes in a sunlit pantry
13. Betrug herrscht überall (Deception is everywhere): Peasants and merchants at market
14. Nach gethaner Arbeit ist gut ruhen (Once the work is done, rest is well deserved): Fout labourers recling in a field, a hilltown beyond 15. A fish-wife repairing nets assisted by five children, fish drying beyond
16. Auf einer Reise nach Hamburg den 30 September 1808 (On a journey to Hamburg on 10 September 1808): Fishermen with their catch in a coastal village
17. Italien ist ein reiches und gesegnetes Land voller Bettler (Italy is a rich and blessed land full of beggars): A peasant, with his donkey, asleep by a path, an Italianate landscape beyond
18. Dudelsackpfeifer (The Bagpiper): Two pipers before an altar to the Virgin
19. A street butcher robbed of his sausages by a pack of cats
20. A family of Lapps by a hut (inscribed and dated 'Nach der Nathur gezeichnet 18 Sep. 1805 Hamburg: Lappländer')
21. Two eagles attacking a hunting dog and a hare, two hunters beyond
22. Eheharmonie (Marital bliss): A barrel-maker scolded by his wife, a dog and a cat fighting beyond
23. A team of coopers fitting metal bands to a barrel over a fire
24. Ja, sogar die toten Fische gähnen (Yes, even the dead fish are yawning): Three woman preparing fruit, game and fish, and talking constantly
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, some heightened with white, in contemporary mounts
The album: 17¼ x 12 in. (440 x 302 mm.); The drawings approximately 8 x 13 in. (203 x 330 mm.); and A watercolor of a couple with an infant relaxing on a Neapolitan quay, Vesuvius across the bay beyond, and another of a swineherd driving swimming pigs across a river, dated and inscribed 'Eystrup Ao. 1815 Nach der Natur gezeichnet.' (26)
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