Franz
Kobell (aka Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell; Josef Kobell) (1749–1822)
“Mountainous Landscape
with Waterfall”, 1790, plate 1 from a series of twenty small
landscape etchings, “Paysages”, published in Mannheim by Dominic Artaria
(1765–1823) in “20 Paysages dessinées & gravées a l'Eau Forte par François
Kobell” in c1790. This impression is before the numbering for this publication.
Etching on laid
paper backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet)
9.8 x 6.8 cm.; (plate) 8.8 x 5.9 cm.
State i (of ii)
lifetime impression before numbering.
Nagler 1835–52
1–20 (G K Nagler 1835, “Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon”, 22 vols, Munich).
The British
Museum offers a description of this print:
Condition:
richly inked lifetime impression (before numbering) with restored losses to the
upper left margin and a stain to the lower margin. The sheet is laid onto
a support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.
I am selling
this small jewel-like etching exemplifying the proto-Romantic spirit in Germany
of the Sturm und Drang period, for the total cost of AU$230 (currently US$155.76/EUR141.17/GBP123.49
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 glowing etching executed with a curious juxtaposition
of freely hatched strokes rendering the sky and carefully inscribed mimetic
marks portraying the mountain, 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
