Die Dresdener Gallerie. Eine Auswahl der vorzüglichsten Meisterwerke dieser größten und reichhaltigsten Sammlung in vortrefflichen Stahlstichen.
Hardcover
Leipzig und Dresden
by Text by Adolph Görling
Leipzig und Dresden: Albert Henry Payne. Hardcover. Good. Volume 2 (II. Band). c.1850, 193–353pp., with Table of Contents and Index, 9 x 11, German text (with English and French on most plates). Payne, the English steel engraver, painter and illustrator lived in Leipzig from 1839, where he published the Royal Dresden Gallery; heavily illustrated with 63 single-leaf (vertical and horizontal) steel engravings (each protectedby tissue) including many Great Masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rubens School, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), Salviati, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carlo Dolci, Fasolo, Netscher, Canaletto, Correggio, Veronese, Ferdinand Bol, Hans Holbein, Anton Raphael Mengs, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Giuseppe Nogari, Sassoferrato and more with categories ranging from: landscape to religion to portraits some with accompanying text. Good with the leather spine and marble covered boards rubbed, with corners and edges bumped. Interior pages with moderate foxing and some soiling throughout. Plates generally clean and bright protected by tissue. (Inventory #: KC16641)