incunable lithography (6 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Fabrique de Papiers peints de M[essieu]rs J[ean] Zuber & Cie. à Rixheim (pres de Mulhausen) [Mühlhausen, Godefroy Engelmann 1823] Plate xxi. The palatial wallpaper factory of Jean Zuber was installed at the former commandry of the Teutonic Knights at Rixheim (Reichsheim) near Mühlhausen for its spaciousness. Zuber, a former textile printer from Mülhausen, became sole owner of the factory in 1802; he became famous in 1804 for producing here the first scenic wallpapers in France using outstanding artists to produce murals for an international clientele. The lithograph shows the manor house with adjoining buildings behind trees planted in the centre; in the foreground 2 workers are cleaning matrixes at a trough while 3 others are busy loading stone roller printers on to a cart. Visitors are greeted in the central lawn. Small repair without loss in tailend edge of blank margin.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Fabrique de Papiers peints de M[essieu]rs J[ean] Zuber & Cie. à Rixheim (pres de Mulhausen) [Mühlhausen, Godefroy Engelmann 1823] Plate xxi. The palatial wallpaper factory of Jean Zuber was installed at the former commandry of the Teutonic Knights at Rixheim (Reichsheim) near Mühlhausen for its spaciousness. Zuber, a former textile printer from Mülhausen, became sole owner of the factory in 1802; he became famous in 1804 for producing here the first scenic wallpapers in France using outstanding artists to produce murals for an international clientele. The lithograph shows the manor house with adjoining buildings behind trees planted in the centre; in the foreground 2 workers are cleaning matrixes at a trough while 3 others are busy loading stone roller printers on to a cart. Visitors are greeted in the central lawn. Small repair without loss in tailend edge of blank margin.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Fabrique de Siamoises de M[essieu]rs Blech Frères à Ste Marie aux mines. [Mühlhausen, Godefroy Engelmann] 1823. Plate xviii. Coloured lithograph. The cotton mill at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines producing plain white and coloured cloth, best known for its production of textiles printed on linen warp and cotton weft and decorated with small painted bouquets of flowers, known as 'Siamoises'. In the foreground workers are seen washing and hanging up strands to dry on lines. The original painted Siamoises were imported to France following a treaty by Louis XIV with the King of Siam in 1685 and became fashionable as a bed decor following the prohibition to import the Indiennes (chintzes) in 1688. The Mill founded in 1755 by Jean Georges Reber of Mühlhausen, changed its name in 1818 to 'Blech Frères'. In fresh condition.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Fabrique d Indiennes a Filature de Coton de M[essie]rs Dollfus Mieg & Cie. À Dornach (près Mulhausen) [Mühlhausen, Godefroy Engelmann] 1822. Plate xiv. Trees tinted in green. The mill and printed cotton factory for producing cloth in the Indian manner (chintzes) built by Dollfus Mieg & Co at Dornach near Mühlhausen c1800 shows parts of the town situated on the brook Steinbaechlein for washing and rinsing bleached cotton strands; in the foreground a large cart is being loaded with bundles of cotton; to the right workers are pegging cloth for bleaching and drying in the fields. Dollfus Mieg was established in Mühlhausen in 1746 to become one of the largest producers of printed cottons in the region. Small tear in edges of tail-end margin, otherwise in good condition.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Filature de Mr. J[a]ques Hartmann à Munster. [Mülhausen, Godefroy Engelmann] dated 1822. Plate IX. Coloured lithograph. The gigantic cotton mill and outlying buildings owned by Jacques Hartmann at Munster near Colmar which employed some 3000 workers. In the foreground a heavily loaded cart drawn by two horses is guided towards the mill by the coachman running with a whip in hand, a cow is grazing in the large meadow in front. Hartmann (1794-1876) worked for Dollfus Mieg until 1820, when he joined Messrs. Liebach-Sche[u]rer at Thann. In 1822 he married Emily Liebach and acquired his father-in-law s firm which was re-named Liebach-Hartmann et Cie in 1824. Fresh copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. AN INCUNABLE OF LITHOGRAPHY [ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste (1767-1855)] -- Caricatures de J.J. Paris: Chez l'auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. Album in oblong folio, 250 x 335 mm., 19th century green textured cloth and calf spine, handsomely titled in gilt. FIRST EDITION. Complete set of 12 lithographed plates, the first signed in autograph by Isabey in the l.r. corner, othesr signed in plate by Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, the French lithographer and printer. Some plates with some foxing, but delicately and attractively printed. An incunable of lithography. "Cette suite de caricatures est interessante pour les modes de l'epoque" (Colas) . An important and rare set with several libertine subjects as plates. Colas 1519; Bibliotheque Esmerian IV, lot 62 This is one of the earliest known individual artist portfolios in the new medium of lithography "Isabey, a respected painter though not an academician, clearly did not want to be publicly identified with caricature. The same year he published a portfolio of "serious" lithographic drawings that displayed his full name.A parallel could be drawn to the literary history of the novel, which, despite its success with the public, was not considered a respectable art form; early novelists, too, often concealed their identity. " (Ref: Mainardi, P .Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture, p. 46).