Ferdinand Kobell (1740–1799)
“The Sleeping Traveller”, c1780s,
from a pair of etchings, “Deux Estampes au Lavis” (Two Prints with Wash)
(Stengel 90–91) .
Etching with aquatint on laid paper trimmed
with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 4.2 x 8.8 cm; (plate) 3.3 x 7.4
cm.
Inscribed in plate with the artist’s initials:
(lower left) “f K”.
Stengel 91 (Stephan
Christian von Baron Stengel 1822, “Catalogue Raisonné des Estampes de F. Kobell”,
Nuremberg, Riegel & Wiesner, p. 70, cat. no. 91).
Stengel (1822) offers the following
description of this print: (transl.) “The Sleeping Traveller. A boy seen from
behind is lying on the ground, his head resting on his crossed arms, and
turned? towards the left. His package is in front of him lying near a bush, and
behind him his hat, below which are the letters: f. K.” (p. 70).
See also the descriptions of this print
offered by the British Museum and Rijksmuseum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1879-1011-1216; http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.132799.
Condition: a richly inked lifetime impression (based
on the quality of line showing no sign of wear to the printing plate) with narrow
margins around the plate mark and laid onto a support sheet of millennium
quality washi paper. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears,
holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing.
I am selling this very small jewel-like
etching with aquatint for the total cost of AU$230 (currently US$168.62/EUR152.65/GBP126.42
at the time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the
world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this very
beautiful etching shaded with aquatint showing a young man sleeping in the
field, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a
PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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