Fantasies and Glimpses of Nature and Art

Phantasien und Blicke in Natur und Kunst II: An album of ...

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Fantasies and Glimpses of Nature and Art
Phantasien und Blicke in Natur und Kunst II: An album of ...
inscribed with the title on a label attached to the cover, and inscribed 'Unter Tischbeins Bildniss Du Homäros der Bildner, Dein Geist umfasset das Weltall; Wird Dein Scahffender Geist wieder gefasst von der Welt? Ahlwardt' on a label attached to the front endpaper, the album of forty-five leaves, many with attached slips of paper inscribed in several hands with text relating to twenty-one attached or associated drawings:
1. Bildnis, geweiht der Zukunft (A portrait dedicated to the future): Nymphs playing musical instruments emerging from a foliate scroll in a basin supported by a river god and a giant
2. Geweihte des Apolls (Devotees of Apollo): A bull with the Three Graces between his lyre-shaped horns by a moonlit lake with five swans among rushes
3. Ein heller Augenblick (A bright moment): The Sibyl of Cumae seated in a grotto, Vesuvius erupting across the bay of Naples beyond
4. Friede auf Erden! - Friede sey mit Euch! (Peace on earth, peace be with you): Three shepherds looking up to the left
5. Moses as an infant sleeping in a basket adrift on the Nile
6. Zärtliche Mutter (Tender mother): A mother with five children threading figs onto a string, Vesuvius across the Neapolitan Campagna beyond
7. Five figures shipwrecked on a rocky shore
8. A swineherd driving his pigs past a traveller on a donkey
9. A girl with four geese
10. Boys playing with a cat and a dog on a table
11. Fishermen with their catch on a sandy shore
12. Three peasants with a horse and cart
13. A traveller on a donkey stopping at a tavern
14. Andrer Durst zu löschen (To quench the thirst of others): A Scene outside a country inn
15. Eight girl's heads
16. Six girl's heads
17. Die hurtigen Arbeiter (The swift workers): Five peasants eating at a table
18. Verwünscht sey Tintenfass und Feder (Cursed be pot and quill): An elegant gentleman writing at a desk, a woman seated at a laid table beyond (inscribed 'Feitag der 6 Juni 1806' verso)
19. A swineherd driving two pigs from a flower garden
20. A mother and child with a boy playing a hurdy-gurdy
21. A donkey lying down
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, in contemporary mounts (except 1)
the album 20½ x 14¼ in. (517 x 361 mm.); the drawings 20½ x 14¼ in. (517 x 361 mm.) and smaller; and A prepartory drawing for number 20 (21)

Lot Essay

(2) A painting of this composition, entitled Allegorie der Kunst (Allegory of Art) is in the Ostholsteinmuseum, Eutin (A. Friedrich et al., J.H.W. Tischbein (1751-1829), das werk des Goethe-Malers zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Altagskultur, Petersberg, 2001, p. 146 and fig. 17).
(3) A preparatory drawing for the Sibyl in her cave, derived from Tischbein's portraits of Emma Hamiliton, is in the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg (S. Köhn, Lady hamilton und Tischbein, der Küntsler und sein Modell, exhib. cat., Oldenburg, Landesmuseum, 1999, fig. 31.
(5) A preparatory drawing for the watercolor of Moses is in the Staatliche Galerie, Dessau (W. Tischbein, ed. P. Reindl, Die Eselsgeschichte, Oldenburg, 1987, fig. 38).
(18) A preparatory drawing for this domestic scene is in the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, where it is described as 'A scene from the life of Cervantes' (W. Tischbein, op. cit., 1987, fig. 69).
(19) A line drawing for the composition of A swineherd driving two pigs from a flower garden is in the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg (W. Tischbein, ed. P. Reindl, Die Eselsgeschichte, Oldenburg, 1987, fig. 74).

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