Grund Riss von der Hoch Fürstlich Brandenburgischen Eremitage ohnweit Bayreuth = Plan du chateau de plaisance près de Bayreuth l'Hermitage. "Dessiné par Jean Gottlieb Riedel, Archit. et peintre, Concierge du dit Hermitage", 55,5 x 47,5 cm, b/w...
Estimation :
150 / 250
Adjudication :
400 €
Description
(some foxing, folds, some marg. tears, printer's flaw +/- 10 cm, l. marg. waterstain, sl. frayed edges). Interesting pc.
Very rare engraving of the court hermitage built by Margrave Georg Wilhelm near the residential town of Bayreuth. "The court used to retreat here from Bayreuth and, regarding it as a hermitage, slept in comfortable cells. There are parterres, a semi-circular orangery, an extravagant fountain, an outdoor theatre in the form of a Roman ruin, a cascade and a heavily rusticated grotto with a group of nymphs". (www.gardenvisit.com). With key to the locations in German and French and scale of "10 toises, 10 pieds de Nüremberg la Toise". Decorative cartouche.
Very rare engraving of the court hermitage built by Margrave Georg Wilhelm near the residential town of Bayreuth. "The court used to retreat here from Bayreuth and, regarding it as a hermitage, slept in comfortable cells. There are parterres, a semi-circular orangery, an extravagant fountain, an outdoor theatre in the form of a Roman ruin, a cascade and a heavily rusticated grotto with a group of nymphs". (www.gardenvisit.com). With key to the locations in German and French and scale of "10 toises, 10 pieds de Nüremberg la Toise". Decorative cartouche.
