Ferdinand Reibold, Saxon Finance Councillor, Antique Lithograph, circa 1840
€ 175
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
circa 1840
Mapmaker / artist
Unknown
Publisher
Not established
Technique
Lithograph
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14343-41
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Good condition for its age. Toning with a long crease across the upper margin, staining and soiling along the left edge, small chips to the edges and a small spot in the lower margin. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
An original antique lithograph portrait of Ferdinand Reibold, Saxon finance councillor, circa 1840.
Ferdinand Reibold was a Saxon finance councillor. Portraits of public figures of this kind were issued in their own day for admirers, colleagues and fellow citizens, and they survive as a record of how a community chose to present the people it respected.
Lithography was invented by Alois Senefelder in Munich in 1796, and within a generation it had become the favorite medium for the portrait print across the German speaking lands, Austria and France. The artist drew directly on the stone, so a lithographed portrait keeps the softness and immediacy of a chalk drawing, and the portrait lithographers of Vienna, Munich, Dresden and Paris produced likenesses of statesmen, clergy, scholars and private citizens in great numbers between the eighteen twenties and the eighteen sixties.
This sheet comes from a gathering of portraits from across Europe and across two and a half centuries, in engraving, etching and lithography. Portrait prints have been collected in their own right since the eighteenth century, when James Granger's Biographical History of England of 1769 set off a fashion for illustrating books with portraits of the people named in them, and they are still collected today for the sitter, for the maker and for the face itself.
A single portrait frames well in a narrow moulding with a generous mat, and a group of them hung together, whether by period, by profession or simply by the strength of the faces, makes one of the most satisfying walls there is for a study, a library, a landing or a dining room.
The sheet is in good condition for its age, with toning, a crease across the upper margin and staining along the left edge; the lithographed portrait itself is clean.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
