illustrated book; print

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Object Type: illustrated book; print
Museum number: 1857,1114.230
Description: "Richter-Album. Eine Auswahl von Holzschnitten nach Zeichnungen von Ludwig Richter in Dresden. Dritte Ausgabe in zwei Bänden. Erster Band" (Leipzig, Georg Wigand) 1855; containing 152 wood-engraved vignettes after drawings on various fairytale and religious subjects by Richter accompanied by letterpress captions. Bound in original gold-tooled boards with letterpress titlepage, introductory text, and portrait frontispiece etched by L. G. Sichling after Adolf Ehrhardt depicting Ludwig Richter. Wood-engravings; etching
Producer name: After: Ludwig Richter; Published by: Georg Wigand; Print made by: Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling (after Adolph Ehrhardt); Printed by: Breitkopf and Härtel
School/style
Production date: 1855
Production place: Published in: Leipzig
Materials
Technique: wood-engraving; etching; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 237 millimetres; Width: 160 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is the first of two volumes. Volume 2 is kept at 160.b.25 (1857,1114.231). The prints in this volume include title prints to "Alte und neue Studenten Lieder" and "Alte und Neue Volks-Lieder mit Bildern u. Singweisen".
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: child; knight; angel; courtship/love; society/human life; religion/belief
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1857
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1857,1114.230

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