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Uniformes de la Garde de Sa Majeste le Roi de Westphale. [Dresden, c. 1810]
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[SAUERWEID, Alexandre Ivanovitch (1783-1844)]
Uniformes de la Garde de Sa Majeste le Roi de Westphale. [Dresden, c. 1810]
Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia’s own copy of a suite of plates depicting the various uniforms of his army. These copper engravings were produced for the younger brother of Napoleon I, who reigned as Jérôme Napoléon I between 1807 and 1813. The plates are recorded in Lipperheide as engraved after Alexandre Sauerwied. Born in St. Petersburg, Sauerwied trained at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1790–1798), from which he graduated with a gold medal. From 1810 he worked and lived in Paris and Dresden, where his skills as a draftsman and engraver earned him commissions from the Court of Napoleon I. The title page bears the ink annotation ascribing the designs to a Colonel Gautier, a professor in the ‘cabinet togpographique’, however further research has not offered any further information as to who this figure might be. Bobins II, 366; Lipperheide Qdf 9.
Small folio (313 x 208mm). Later printed title page, 19 copper engraved plates coloured by contemporary hand (marginal tears to plates 2 and 10, very light spotting and finger-soiling). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers stamped with gilt foliate decorative border and gilt crest of Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, spine decorated in gilt and with black morocco label (extremities lightly rubbed, more heavily affecting spine). Provenance: from the library of Napoleon’s younger brother, Jérôme, King of Westphalia, for whom the book was made (1784-1860, armorial binding) — Château de Balleroy (bookplate).
Uniformes de la Garde de Sa Majeste le Roi de Westphale. [Dresden, c. 1810]
Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia’s own copy of a suite of plates depicting the various uniforms of his army. These copper engravings were produced for the younger brother of Napoleon I, who reigned as Jérôme Napoléon I between 1807 and 1813. The plates are recorded in Lipperheide as engraved after Alexandre Sauerwied. Born in St. Petersburg, Sauerwied trained at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1790–1798), from which he graduated with a gold medal. From 1810 he worked and lived in Paris and Dresden, where his skills as a draftsman and engraver earned him commissions from the Court of Napoleon I. The title page bears the ink annotation ascribing the designs to a Colonel Gautier, a professor in the ‘cabinet togpographique’, however further research has not offered any further information as to who this figure might be. Bobins II, 366; Lipperheide Qdf 9.
Small folio (313 x 208mm). Later printed title page, 19 copper engraved plates coloured by contemporary hand (marginal tears to plates 2 and 10, very light spotting and finger-soiling). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers stamped with gilt foliate decorative border and gilt crest of Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, spine decorated in gilt and with black morocco label (extremities lightly rubbed, more heavily affecting spine). Provenance: from the library of Napoleon’s younger brother, Jérôme, King of Westphalia, for whom the book was made (1784-1860, armorial binding) — Château de Balleroy (bookplate).
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