From the last unction over the dying itself and the farewell at the open coffin, on the procedure of the funeral service, indecencies during such as well as arrangement and cheerful use of the bequest up to dramatic pictorialization of the resurrection to eternal life or descent into Hell + grandiose memento mori.

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Consultation of Physicians (Arms of the Undertakers). The Collegium Medicum or the coat of arms of the undertakers. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Jan^y. 1^st. 1809. Subject size 17.1 x 14.2 cm.

Cook’s smaller version without the 6-lined subtext of this brilliant guild arms with the device Et plurima mortis imago. Representing the last hope of the undertakers in bad times – the physicians. – Trimmed within the wide platemark and especially in its upper margin somewhat time-spotted. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 8,929 / EUR  125. (c. US$ 161.) + shipping

(Unction, Extreme.) Engraving. (1679.) 8.8 x 6 cm.

Verso: (The Confession.) Engraving as before. – Works of an anonymous engraver – elsewhere inscribed as “Stich fecit”, but such one not provable – from a catechism of Petrus Canisius SJ, Cologne 1679. – Weak waterstreak above of the subject. Acid-freely backed marginal tear.
Offer no. 13,087 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 45.) + shipping

(Death, The.) While receiving the sacraments the winged death with hourglass and arrow appears to the dying woman. Engraving as before. 8.8 x 6.2 cm.

Verso: (The Last Judgement.) Earth breaks up and releases the dead, filled with amazement, gratitude, and – expectation. Engraving as before. – Weak waterstreak above the image. There and also outside of the image a larger acid-freely repaired tear with loss of some letters of the general text.
Offer no. 13,085 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 45.) + shipping

Santomaso, Giuseppe (1907 Venice 1990). Memento mori. The bone in the ground. Colour lithograph. Inscribed in pencil: 17/100 / Santomaso ‘64. 54.5 x 37 cm.

On Rives hand-made paper. – Drystamp ERKER-PRESSE. – Santomaso was founding member of “Fronte Nuovo delle arti”. Connections with Braque, Léger, Morandi. Developing on an abstract Hermetism, here, however, representionally pictorial-fine. Professor at the Academy Venice. Numerous international exhibitions.
Offer no. 14,548 / EUR  930. / export price EUR  884. (c. US$ 1142.) + shipping

Bijapur / West + East Ghuts – Bejapore, Sultan Mahomed Shah’s Mausoleum in. The splendid dome construction above of the water. Steel engraving by Ad. Rottmann. Ca. 1855. 11.7 x 17.2 cm. – Weak water-streak in the right margin.
Offer no. 11,262 / EUR  40. (c. US$ 52.) + shipping

Gehrts, Johannes (St. Pauli/Hamburg 1855 – Dusseldorf 1921). Heroic Death of the Stedinger. Wood engraving by Rupert (so Hamburg Harbour after Bartels) or Heinrich Schlumprecht at Adolf Cloß, Stuttgart. (1880/81.) 18 x 23.8 cm.
Offer no. 8,271 / EUR  71. (c. US$ 92.) + shipping

Marsh Church on the Stedingen Battlefield. In Winter, in front the graveyard. Wood engraving at Adolf Cloß, Stuttgart. (1880/81.) 10.3 x 12.9 cm. – Continued text on both sides. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 8,272 / EUR  44. (c. US$ 57.) + shipping

Siegfried’s Corpse is shipped across the Rhine. In the stern of the boat Gunther, Giselher, and Hagen. Toned wood engraving after Albert Baur (Aix-la-Chapelle 1835 – Dusseldorf 1906) for Adolf Cloß, Stuttgart. (1875/76.) 17.7 x 24 cm.
Offer no. 14,392 / EUR  86. (c. US$ 111.) + shipping

Cassas, Louis François (Azay-le Ferron, Indre, 1756 – Versailles 1827). Mausolée d’Jamblichus. Interior with two figurines in the entrance, above the epitaph with the deceased resting supporting himself and surrounded by three genii or pupils, probably of the neoplatonic philosopher Jamblichos from Chalkis, teacher in Apameia (c. 250-325 or c. 280-330/337). Etching by Jean de la Porte (b. c. 1760), completed with the chisel by Pierre Gabriel Berthault (St. Maur 1748 – c. 1819). (1799.) Inscribed: Dessiné par L. F. Cassas. / Gravé à l’eau forte par de la Porte. / Terminé par Berthault. 46 x 29.4 cm. – Three sides uncut. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,528 / EUR  302. / export price EUR  287. (c. US$ 371.) + shipping

– – – Vue générale de Néapolis. View of the Roman Neapolis, the ancient and present Sichem in Samaria

where  Joseph  is  buried  and  close  to  which  the  Well  of  Jacob

is situated. Dispersed figurines. Engraving by Jean Baptiste Racine (Paris 1747 – c. 1805). (1799.) Inscribed: Dessiné par L. F. Cassas. / Gravé par Racine. 29.7 x 46.3 cm. – The broad white margins a little waterstained and almost only a little foxing. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,540 / EUR  910. / export price EUR  865. (c. US$ 1117.) + shipping

Chapel with Braubach. With fine view at the Marksburg. In front weed-grown graveyard. Wood engraving by Niedermann after Richard Püttner (Wurzen 1842 – Munich 1913). (1875-76.) 14.6 x 18.7 cm.

Verso: Oberlahnstein, View (over the Rhine) at. In the foreground the King’s Chair. Wood engraving after Püttner. 11.6 x 17.5 cm. – Continued local text on both sides. – One lateral margin a little foxing.
Offer no. 8,799 / EUR  47. (c. US$ 61.) + shipping

Liverpool – St. James Cemetery. Looking North / Looking South. 2 sheet. Steel engravings by Fenner after Thomas Mann Baynes (1794 – after 1854). 1831. 10.8 x 15.9 cm. – Under common passepartout with interbar.
Offer no. 14,097 / EUR  71. (c. US$ 92.) + shipping

(Resurrection of Flesh.) The trumps of doom let the earth break up and the army of the dead look full of various kinds of amazement, thanks, but also uncertain expectation at the coming. Engraving. (1679.) 8.7 x 6.4 cm.

BACK: (And an eternal life, amen.) The resurrected, in front St. Peter with the keys, follow Christ holding the cross to the Our Father in Heaven an his heavenly hosts. Engraving as before. – Works by an anonymous engraver – elsewhere inscribing as “Stich fecit”, but such one here not provable – of a catechism of Petrus Canisius SJ, Cologne 1679.
Offer no. 13,084 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 45.) + shipping

(Living and the Dead, From hence He will come to judge the.) Christ surrounded by the Holy Spirit above of the resurrecting and living. Engravingas before. – Verso: (I believe in the Holy Spirit.) Engraving as before.
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(Hell, The.) Hell’s mouth with the eye of justice gulping down the damned. Engraving as before. – Verso: (The Heaven.) Think then … of your last things so you will never ever sin. The resurrected, in front Peter with the keys, follow Christ with the cross to the heavenly father and his hosts. Engraving as above. – Light waterstreak above the image. Marginal tear repaired with acid-free tape.
Offer no. 13,399 / EUR  25. (c. US$ 32.) + shipping

“ The  Great  Sheet  of  Dance  Macabre ”

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Dance Macabre. Circular chain dance of nine women + skeletons around opened casket with two skeletons inside and outside of the churchyard wall as centerpiece. In addition to it, placed back, chapel + charnel-house (?) along with walls. In the corners the Fall of man – Golgatha – the Eternal life + Purgatory , between two text-cartouches. In the outer-field surrounded by 12 medaillions together with text-cartouches for the dance of the men, separated by 8 (6 varying) vanitas attributes. Mezzotint by Johann Jacob Ridinger (1736 Augsburg 1784). Inscribed: Ioh. Iacob Ridinger sculps. / Ioh. El. Ridinger excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as following. 65.3 x 48 cm.

Th.-Stillfried + Schwarz 1428. – Illustration in L’Art Macabre 2, Yearbook of the European Dance Macabre Society, Dusseldorf 2001, within the contribution here “The Vanitas Symbolism with Joh. El. Ridinger”.

2^nd state (of 2?) as the copy in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, too. – The copies Stillfried, Schwarz and that of the sale Counts Faber-Castell (1958 as

“ The  great  sheet  of  Dance  Macabre / Main sheet ”)

not recordable in their states on the base of their descriptions. However, the one presented by Patrick Pollefeys on the internet proves to be earlier, at the present assumable as the first.

Not in Thienemann and in Dresden, see below, missing in the voluminous stocks of Weigel (1857) , Coppenrath (1889/90) , Wawra (1890) , Helbing (1900) , Rosenthal (1940) and others more.

Typographic + figurative watermark. – Above and on the right fine small margin nearly throughout, on the left and below predominantly trimmed on the 1.5 cm wide platemark. – To the middle laid on wide-margined hand-made paper per corner-mountage, one of which loosened, causing a repaired tear. Practically not disturbing center-fold.

The  very  fine  copy  in  respect  of  printing  +  condition

of a cultivated collection of nuanced chiaroscuro in all parts. And in such a way

of  greatest  rarity

not only on the market, but, as documented above, in general. And indeed already in 1675 the expert von Sandrart numbered “neat impressions” of the velvety mezzotint at only “50 or 60 (!). After that the image acquires polish soon for it does not go deep into the copper”. Corresponding to that Thienemann in 1856 (pp. VIII + 270) :

and made known only in 1876 by Count Stillfried. – The quotations there not absolutely correct. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,414  /  price on request

United  in  Death

Daumier, Honoré (Marseille 1808 – Valmondois 1879). L’Unité Allemande. The roller of Mars levels out the dead, as there are Württembergers, Badensers, Bavarians, Hannoverans, Saxons, Hesses. Lithograph. (1870-71.) Monogrammed, otherwise as above. 22.2 x 18.1 cm.

Delteil 3831, III (of 3) with ills. of this state. – Careful impression on better paper without the text on the back and the “Actualité” series title.

Worked  in the great style of the last years, omitting all material and “accusing the wrong of the war in symbolic figures only” (Glaser).
Offer no. 13,385 / EUR  404. / export price EUR  384. (c. US$ 496.) + shipping

Old God’s Acre in Krefeld – Memorial for the Dead of 1813-14. Wood engraving after Theodor Alexander Weber (Leipsic 1838 – Paris 1907). (1875-76.) 15 x 9.1 cm.

Verso: Neuß / Upper Gate with Drusus Tower. Wood engraving as above. 15.3 x 10.5 cm. – Not concluded local text on Dusseldorf and the Lower Rhine on both sides.
Offer no. 6,230 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 78.) + shipping

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Funeral Ticket. Invitation form for the attendance at a funeral service. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst Rees, & Orme. July 1^st. 1809., otherwise as above. Subject size 16.3 x 18.6 cm.

Pictorially  richly  designed , rare  business  art  work  for the undertaker Humphrey Dren and there at the time of present version of the engraving still in use. Shows a rich burial procession before the entrance of the church. Below the data to be completed manually. – Trimmed within the wide platemark and in this minimally timespotted. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 9,015 / EUR  95. (c. US$ 123.) + shipping

– – The Funeral Company. Bidding farewell to the passed away put on in the partly open coffin at home. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Pl. VI. / Designed by W. Hogarth. / Engraved by T. Cook. / London Published by G. G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row October 1^st. 1799. and series title. 35.5 x 41.1 cm.

Harlots Progress VI. – Impression of very fine chiaroscuro on buff paper. – The light brown staining in the white upper margin still reaching into the picture’s background, but there practically imperceptible. – Beyond that – contrary to all later Hogarth editions – in his original size. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker).

“ Here now she lies finally … quiet and patient in the coffin, secure of Sir John Gonson’s (the judge) satellites, Mister M. Thwackums lashes and – Dr. Misaubins pills. What a strong bulwark a coffin-lid not is! ”

(Lichtenberg). – See the complete description.

Offer no. 7,510 / EUR  240. (c. US$ 310.) + shipping

– – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching in the 3^rd state of 1744. Inscribed: Plate 6. / † / W^m. Hogarth inv^t. Pinxt^t. et sculp^t. 32 x 39 cm.

Nagler 17, 6; illustration Hogarth Catalogue Zurich, 1983, 18 (this state). – Harmonic, extremely wide-margined impression on buff paper, perhaps from the complete edition published by Boydell 1790-1809. – Weak waterstreak in the upper right marginal corner.
Offer no. 7,635 / EUR  151. (c. US$ 195.) + shipping

– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840). Inscribed: 12. / Plate 6. / W. Hogarth inv^t. pinx^t. Riepenhausen d. sc. 20 x 24.8 cm. – Impression on especially buff paper, supposedly from about 1850.
Offer no. 7,637 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 65.) + shipping

– – – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) Inscribed: 18 / Der Weg einer Buhlerin. 6^tes. Blatt. 19.6 x 21.4 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
Offer no. 7,638 / EUR  59. (c. US$ 76.) + shipping

Trauernder – Pu-Qua. A Traveller. / Voyageur. On foot. Colored stipple by Dadley (active before 1797 – after 1803). Inscribed: Pu-Quà, Cantòn, Delin. / Dadley, London, Sculpt. 25.7 x 22 cm.

According to Lipperheide Le 21 after-engraving about 1810 after Dadley’s print of 1799 (Lipperheide Le 17). – “ Son habillement indique qu’il est en deuil. Il porte un bâton, une espece d’épine qui croît dans quelques parties de la Chine, et que l’on emploie fréquemment comme un bâton à marcher. ”
Offer no. 14,635 / EUR  75. (c. US$ 97.) + shipping

Buochs (CH), Charnel-House in. Visitor scenery before the skull shelf. Wood engraving for Adolf Cloß (1840 Stuttgart 1894; “at his time one of the best of his profession in Germany”, Thieme-Becker). (1875/77.) 16 x 13.8 cm.

Verso: Milker of Buochs. Smoking his pipe at the open window. Wood engraving, supposedly after Charles Hermans (Brussels 1839 – Mentone 1924). 15.5 x 10.8 cm. – On both sides text complete in itself on folklore, especially on the Alpine tradition of the return of the herds.
Offer no. 9,655 / EUR  48. (c. US$ 62.) + shipping

Rethel, Alfred (Diepenbend near Aachen 1816 – Dusseldorf 1859). The Death as a Friend. The old tower watcher died in his chair with the death tolling the bell for him. Woodcut by Richard Julius Jungtow (b. Dresden 1828). (1851.) Inscribed in the subject: J. Jungtow sc. / AR, under that in German: From the preferred impressions edited by the Kunstwart / Alfred Rethel, otherwise as above. 30.2 x 27.4 cm.

Zoege von Manteuffel 25, here in the impression not mentioned there as addition to the periodical KUNSTWART (1887-1937, of which only till 1894 with the independent KUNSTWART itself) on widemargined laidlike heavy paper. – Lower leaf-edge with acid-freely backed small tear and weak water-streak and a slight trace of discoloration shining through from back due to lateral traces of old framing.

THE  FAMOUS  SUJET  counted by Thieme-Becker among the “important woodcut compositions” and expressly noted per Jungtow as well as also the drawing in Dresden by Boetticher.
Offer no. 15,023 / EUR  89. (c. US$ 115.) + shipping

Clemens Chapel and Falkenburg (Middle Rhine). In front the first, erected at the place of the judicial proceedings hold by Rudolf of Habsburg, with graveyard before. Wood engraving by W. Werkmeister after Richard Puettner (Wurzen 1842 – Munich 1913) for A. Cloß, Stuttgart. (1875/76.) 12.1 x 18.8 cm. – BACK: Sooneck. With flight of magpies. Wood engraving by R. Köber after P. 22.4 x 11.6 cm. – Continued local text on both sides.
Offer no. 8,803 / EUR  40. (c. US$ 52.) + shipping

Funeral Chapel on the St. Gotthard. Wood engraving after Albert Hertel’s (1843 Berlin 1912, “painter of heroic landscapes” and “true artistic relationship to nature”, Thieme-Becker) design of 1875. (1875/77). Inscribed: AH. (ligated) 1875., otherwise as before. 21.5 x 13.2 cm.

Verso: Hospiz on the St. G. Before great carriage scenery. Wood engraving as above, but after design of 1876. Inscribed: AH. (ligated) 1876., otherwise as before. 15 x 18.7 cm. – Continued local text on both sides.
Offer no. 9,795 / EUR  69. (c. US$ 89.) + shipping

Bauernfeind, Gustav (Sulz on the Neckar 1848 – Jerusalem 1904). Cementary of Silenen. Wood engraving after B. (1875/77.) Inscribed: GBfd, otherwise as above. 13.3 x 18.5 cm. – Verso: Zwing-Uri. Wood engraving as before. 12.9 x 18.4 cm. – Continued German text full of atmosphere.
Offer no. 9,649 / EUR  48. (c. US$ 62.) + shipping

– – The Interior of an Etruscan Sepulchre near Perugia. View through the vestibule equipped with diverse utilities and religious symbols at the actual tomb. Wood engraving after B. (1876.) Inscribed: G. Bauernfeind., otherwise in German as before. 19.7 x 15.2 cm.

Local text on both sides. – “Perugia … the most colossal of all Etruscan cities … once such a strong fortress that even Hannibal not dared to attack it after his great victory at Lake Trasimene.”
Offer no. 10,192 / EUR  40. (c. US$ 52.) + shipping

– – Etruscan Sepulchres of Castel d’Asso near Viterbo. On the left the entries to the sepulchres, on the right back over the plain of this picturesque landscape rain falling. Wood engraving by the monogramist F. W. (Friedrich Weigand, b. Vienna 1842?). (1876.) Inscribed: GB. (ligated) / F. W. Sc., otherwise as above. 11.7 x 18.8 cm. – ocal text on both sides.
Offer no. 10,199 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 59.) + shipping

(also Andriani, Andreini, Andreasso, Andrea Mantuano; Mantua 1541 or later – supposedly there c. 1623) based on his clair obscur woodcut after Giovanni Fortuna Fortunius (1535-1611, active in Siena). Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger excud. Aug. Vind. Sheet size 57 x 40.6 cm.

Unknown  to  the  respective  literature

on Ridinger up to Wend, Ergänzungen zu den Œuvreverzeichnissen der Druckgrafik (1975), Niemeyer, Die Vanitas-Symbolik bei Joh. El. Ridinger (in L’Art Macabre, vol. 2, 2001) and the important catalogues of collections, sales, and exhibitions from Weigel (1838) till the present. Thematically though

in  its  iconographic  richness  not  reached

by the core of his partly extremely rare, but still known Mementi, the mezzotints Thienemann-Stillfried 1426-1431 ( 1428 available, too ). And in its composition far from the latter two of these, the brutally realistic ones worked by Johann Jacob after Dieffenbrunner (1430 f.). Here then

the  Memento  Mori  as  piece  of  virtuosity ,

as intellectual challenge combined with an expressive-charming plasticity. As being

extremely  rare  for  Andreani

(generally Thieme-Becker speak of “the great rareness of the leaves” ) , as

almost-unique  for  Ridinger .

Here then present in a fine, not quite contemporary impression on lines-free paper with wordmark watermark and surrounding fine margin around the image’s border line. Only here and there trimmed closely to it. The certain agemarkedness countered by professional restorative means as the backside (water) spottiness shines only partially quite lightly through to the picture side. In the hatched marginal field lower right written note on the artist only barely visible anymore. Shortly ,

a  rarissimum  looking  for  its  equals  of  fine  total  impression .

Offer no. 28,482  /  price on request – See the complete description. – Illustration at top.

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Idle ‘Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service. Tom Idle with shoeshine and two further guys on a coffin  besides  an  open  grave.  Accordingly forcible the beadle reprimands them their wicked doings. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Design’d by W^m. Hogarth / Plate 3. / Engraved by T. Cook. / Published by T. Cook N^o. 11 Little Britain, & G. G. & J. Robinsons N^o. 25 Pater Noster Row, Oct^r. 1^st. 1795. 28.6 x 36.5 cm.

Industry & Idleness III. –  Marvellous  impression  on buff paper. In its downright luxuriously wide white margin a few weak foxing spots and upper right slight waterstreak. Beyond that – contrary to all later Hogarth editions –  in  the  original  size. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 7,530 / EUR  373. / export price EUR  354. (c. US$ 457.) + shipping

– – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840). Inscribed: W. Hogarth inv & pinx. / Pl. 3. / Riepenhs. f. 22.5 x 28 cm. – On slightly toned minor paper. – Riepenhausen’s engravings after Hogarth (“very estimable”, Nagler) belong to his chief work and are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings.
Offer no. 5,645 / EUR  76. (c. US$ 98.) + shipping

– – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 13 x 16 cm. – With title in German + English, but without verse and marginal emblems.
Offer no. 7,689 / EUR  43. (c. US$ 56.) + shipping

Impenitence, Persist deliberately in the. These sins are not, or hardly forgiven in this and that world. Wrapped into blankets the dying rejects the sacraments the priest standing on the left, accompanied by the archangel, wants to administer. Meanwhile the winged Satan grasps for him. A second one veiling the cross of the Saviour. On the right a filled treasure chest, the death’s arrow hitting the dove of the Holy Ghost. Engraving. (1679.) Inscribed as above. 8.6 x 5.8 cm.

Verso: Have a Hardened Heart. The king on the throne still in age inclined to the temptation of the snake. Through the window view at the damnation of the Last Judgement his councilors demonstrate to him. Once again the arrow of death pointed against the Holy Ghost. Engraving as before. – Works by an anonymous engraver – elsewhere inscribed as “Stich fecit”, but such one not provable – of a catechism of Petrus Cansius SJ, Cologne 1679. – Two tears reaching into the subtext lower right backed acid-freely.
Offer no. 14,372 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 45.) + shipping

Bracht, Eugen (Morges 1842 – Darmstadt 1921). Megalithic grave on Luneburg Heath. In picturesque moonlight, in front on the path male hare with doe. Wood engraving at Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1880/81.) Inscribed: A. Closs X. I. / Eugen Bracht, otherwise as above. 17.4 x 23.6 cm.

“ (Bracht) leaves behind an extensive pictorial and drawn work dedicated almost exclusively to the landscape … The first main creative phase (1875-93) shows several German heath landscapes (Luneburg Heath, Rügen, High Venn) with pastoral and historizing motifs. The supra-regional success of his meager landscape depictions results in official orders … ”

(Manfred Großkinsky, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon XIII, 1996, 511). – See the complete description.
Offer no. 8,365 / EUR  64. (c. US$ 83.) + shipping

Werner Chapel in Bacharach. With fine view of the graveyard in front. Wood engraving by A. Wolf for A. Cloß, Stuttgart. (1875-76.) Ca. 19 x 18.8 cm. – BACK: In the Palatinate (Caub). Wood engraving after Richard Püttner (Wurzen 1842 – Munich 1913). 14.3 x 8.3 cm. – Continued local text on both sides.
Offer no. 8,800 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 45.) + shipping

Certificate of Heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, b. Häusser, wife of the postman Johann Friedrich Carl Sch., regarding the transfer and consolidation of the real estate at Stadt and Kirchremda (Saxony-Weimar) bequeathed by the weaver Johann Gottlieb Erdmann Häusser. Executed Blankenhain January 17, 1889. Writing on paper. Sm. fol. 6 unnumbered ll. With cord stitching in the state colors and Amtsgericht paper seal.

“ The heirs  in  reference  to  the  marital  permission  have entered upon the inheritance of the deceased. Widow Heusser has relinquished on her right of succession on the estate assets in favor of her daughter who accepts this.

“ Mrs. Luisa Frederike Therese Schubert née Heusser has  in  reference  to  the  marital  permission  asked for the transfer of the estate assets to herself and for execution of a certificate of heirship on the estate belonging to … ”

With attached extract of the land register (printed form) with official stamp and detailed entry of the real estate the deceased bequeathed to the widow Marie Katharine Friederike Häusser, b. Morgenroth, and the abovementioned common daughter by his death September 24, 1888, and testimony on the consolidation of the several properties situated in Stadt and Kirchremda in the total value of 673,120 marks necessary because of the waiver of inheritance rights by the widow for the benefit of the daughter. Following the assessment of tax and pension payments and filing confirmations at the city tax revenue office and the vicarage as leaving and accession authority. On the back further attestations. – With document’s watermark and blind stamp Grand Duchy Saxony with coat of arms resp. – Negligible center fold.
Offer no. 10,412 / EUR  118. (c. US$ 152.) + shipping

London – St. John the Baptist, Savoy. In the foreground the obviously conveyed old churchyard with grazing three sheep and a donkey. Steel engraving by James Baylie Allen (Birmingham 1803 – London 1876) after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1^st half of the 19^th century). 1830. 10.7 x 14.6 cm.
Offer no. 9,237 / EUR  25. (c. US$ 32.) + shipping

Securities  –  Mortgages  –  Gold  Ducats

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Young Heir taking Possession. The fresh heir of the rich miser Rakewell prepares his entry into society. In front he has new trousers fit on him while the  notary  sitting behind him and compiling the list of the assets provides himself beforehand with the most necessary, while young Rakewell offers money to those who will not take it: Sarah Young and her mother. Above at the ceiling a ledge breaks under the hands of the paperhanger and a golden rain flows to the floor. In the chamber besides the several periwigs of the deceased collector of lucrative  securities  +  mortgages  which now, bundled and loose, look forward to their utilization. Engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840). Inscribed: 13. / W. Hogarth inv pinx. 1735. E. Riepenhausen d. sc. / Plate. 1. 20.5 x 27 cm. – See the complete description.

The Rake’s Progress I. – On especially buff paper, supposedly about 1850.
Offer no. 11,835 / EUR  228. (c. US$ 295.) + shipping

– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) 21 x 27 cm. – Somewhat palish impression.
Offer no. 7,641 / EUR  118. (c. US$ 152.) + shipping

– – – The same in lithography by O. C. Apelt (before 1829 – after 1840). (1833/36.) Inscribed: 67. / O. C. Apelt 1834 / Der Weg des Liederlichen. 22.8 x 22 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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