Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 117

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MANUSCRIPT BOOK.) [Schroedker, Frau Allwine]. Das Jahr und seine Kinder (The Year and its Children). 13 ink-and-watercolor illustrations on vellum by Schroedker for a published nineteenth-century calendar; separate bound volume of the published calendar, with (9 of 12) images printed as lithographs. Folio, vellum sheets measure 293x210 mm; 11 1/2x 8 1/4 inches, each individually matted and laid into custom drop-back box of gilt-lettered 1/4-vellum over black cloth; bound volume is folio, publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth, light wear; lacking plates for April, August, and September. Dusseldorf: J. v. Breidenbach, (circa 1880's)

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a set of beautiful, exquisitely detailed drawings on vellum for a 19th century german calendar. Each leaf displays the month name above a calligraphed poetic quotation, all elaborately hand-illuminated in gold and colors. The images showcase flora and fauna, courting couples, gothic arbors and letter forms, and more vernacular motifs.