Object Description
Per Curator, Joachim Homann 3/17/2014 (From dealer’s catalog:):
Reinhart, J. C. - Dies, A. C., J. C. Reinhart & J. Mechau. Collection ou suite de vues pittoresques de l'Italie dessinées d'après nature. Nürnberg, Frauenholz, 1798. Gr.-fol. Mit 72 Original-Radierungen von Dies, Reinhart u. Mechau. 2 Bll. Titel u. Inhalt. Lose Bll. u. Taf. in mod. Leinen.-Kassette mit Deckelschild. Euro 15.000,--
Andresen (Reinhart) 52-75 u. (Dies) 5-28; Thieme-B. IX, 248 (Dies),XXIV, 323 (Mechau) u. XXVIII, 125 (Reinhart); Schmid S. 161 ff., bes. S. 237-244. -
** (English brief)
Complete set of 72 etchings in large folio by the famous German artists Reinhart, Dies and Mechau with beautiful landscape views of Rome and its surroundings. - Slight spotting and thumbing, small numbering to lower right platemark, few small marginal tears, larger tear (4 cm) to pl. 13, folding to pl. 12, some creasing to upper margin of pl. 26.Overall a fine copy, unsewn as issued in a recent cloth box.