Jun 02, 2011 - Sale 2249

Sale 2249 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(COSTUME.) Adam, Victor. Matériaux du Dessinateur [from the front wrapper of fascicle 6 bound into the volume]. 28 non-sequential hand-colored lithographed plates from the Passe-Tems series, all Signed in the plate by Adam. 4to, publisher's cloth lettered in German. Paris and London, circa 1834

Additional Details

Appears to be a gathering of Adam plates from a larger series which included the work of many other artists. The front wrapper of the fascicle which is bound in states in French that many subjects and many artists were involved, with Costain being the principal artist. It seems likely that the Adam plates were pulled from the series by the publisher and the plates sent to Germany where they were bound and the volume titled in German (Blätter von Adam 1834).