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(Bécs), 1830k. (Lith. Institut.). 4 coloured pl(s).
A collection of four 19th-century lithographed views of Pozsony (Bratislava) and one of the rarest and most beautiful pieces of 19th-century Hungarian engravings.
The creator
Ignác Weissenberg was born in Teschen in Silesia and studied in Vienna. He worked as an art teacher at the Jewish school in Bratislava, where he created and published several landscapes. From the mid-1830s until his death, he lived in Pest, where he ran a famous drawing school (in today's Rumbach Sebestyén Street). In addition, he drew and published engravings - mainly views.
The work
With its picturesque location at the western gate of the country, the coronation city of Pozsony was a popular subject for landscape painters. In the first part of the 19th century, several vedutas depicted it, but similar series are unknown. Since the castle and town show their most beautiful face from the south, most of the representations were taken from there, mainly from the other side of the Danube. The two pieces of the collection follow these points of view, however, the third sheet captures the settlement from the northwest, and the fourth shows the Karolina Bridge, a pontoon bridge built in 1825 that connects the town and Ligetfalu. Very few engravings were made of the latter. The addressee of the bilingual dedication on the cover is Fidél Pálffy, representative of the county's most influential family, who played a significant role in the collection's publication as a patron. We have no information about the previous appearance of other copies of this series with the original cover at auction.
The album size is 353 x 475 mm, and the sheets are 195 x 285 (315 x 405) mm.
In original lithographed (title and dedication) paper folder.
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