细节
Three Albums:
The Brother's Book; Figural and Animal pieces; and The Legend of the Geese
Das Buch der Brüder: A folio of drawings of daily life; Figuren und Thierstücke III: An album of drawings of daily life and of the animal world; and Fabeln. I. Gänsegeschichte: The Fable of the Geese and the Fox
each inscribed with the title, (1 and 3) on a label attached to the cover, (2) on the front flyleaf (the front cover lacking), the folios of (1) twenty-six, (2) five and (3) eighteen leaves, with extensive commentaries, some on attached labels, relating to (1) fourteen and (2) two drawings:
Das Buch der Brüder:
1. A peasant family resting in a barn, a donkey to the right
2. A preparatory study for the preceding drawing
3. A girl milking a cow, figures in the byre beyond
4. A farmyard with a peasant feeding pigs
5. A milkmaid spraying a youth from a cow's udder
6. Peasants gathering firewood
7. Fish drying on a line
8. Two milkmaids bearing yokes, a third girl carrying two bundles
9. A peasant by a bread oven
10. Two peasants in a horse cart
11. The preceding image repeated
12. An elegant gentleman, half-length, with mechanical apparatus [the image inserted into the commentary]
13. A carter attacking a snake with his whip
14. A beggarwoman with three children
Figuren und Thierstücke III
15. A woman eating pears, watched by a waiter and another man
16. Two girls consulting a seer
Gänsegeschichte
An unillustrated manuscript copy of the fable, dated '1803'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor (1, 15-16), in contemporary mounts (1, 15-16)
the albums (1) 13 x 8 3/8 in. (330 x 211 mm.); (2) 16¼ x 10½ in. (411 x 267 mm.); and (3) 21 7/8 x 17 in. (555 x 433 mm.); the drawings approximately 13 x 8 3/8 in. (330 x 211 mm.); and A folio containing sixty-three drawings of figures, animals and other subjects, two etchings after antique subjects, and the introductory page to F. Rosaspina's Agli studiosi del disegno, Bologna, 1798 (88)
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