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[FRIES, Monsieur, Franz Xavier NACHTMANN (1799-1846) and J. KÜRSINGER. Quadrilles parées costumées exécutées à la cour de Sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière le 3 Fevrier 1835 représentant les divers pays des quatre partie du monde, et les principaux personnages de Quentin Durward. Munich: I.M. Hermann, n.d. but c.1835]. One volume in four original parts, 2° (460 x 315mm), lithographic general title, section title and dedication to H.R.H Auguste Amélie, Princesse d'Eichstaett, 2ll. printed recto only with letterpress explanatory text, 50 hand-coloured lithographic plates from watercolours by Kürsinger after sketches by Fries and Nachtmann, all drawn on stone and printed by I.M. Hermann (plate 18 'L'Assyrie' soiled at upper outer margins, occasional very slight soiling or spotting), unbound as issued within original grey paper wrappers, titled on upper covers (upper cover to first part discoloured), all within a single later red roan-backed paper-covered box.
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS RARE WORK on the spectacular costume ball held at the court of King Louis Augustus of Bavaria on 3 February 1835. The ball had two distinct themes: the personification of the various countries of the world, and the characters from Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward. Lipperheide gives Ernst Fries as one of the artists: this is unlikely as he had died in 1833. His younger brother Bernhardt is a possibility, but he would have been very young (if his date of birth was May 1820 as stated in Benezit). Colas I, 1133; Lipperheide Sbc 26. (4)
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS RARE WORK on the spectacular costume ball held at the court of King Louis Augustus of Bavaria on 3 February 1835. The ball had two distinct themes: the personification of the various countries of the world, and the characters from Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward. Lipperheide gives Ernst Fries as one of the artists: this is unlikely as he had died in 1833. His younger brother Bernhardt is a possibility, but he would have been very young (if his date of birth was May 1820 as stated in Benezit). Colas I, 1133; Lipperheide Sbc 26. (4)
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