there should be a copy of the portfolio issued in 1860 in New York
Public Library. It is quoted under No 47 in the article "Original Sun
Pictures" by Julia van Haaften in Bulletin of the New York Public
Library Vol. 80 (1977) pp. 355- 415.
Best regards,
Regina Mahlke
Laderman schrieb:
>
> Dear Ex librans:
>
> This title page is quite common:
>
> Hanfstaengl, Franz : VORZUGLICHSTEN GEMAELDE DER KOENIGLICHEN GALLERIE IN
> DRESDEN In Photographischen Abbildungen Nach der Originalen Herausgegebem
> von Franz Hanfstaengl.~ Herz Saxe-Coburg Coth. Hofrath., 1839.
>
> But I have not been able to track down any copies of the same, dated 1860
> and reproduced on an albumen print in portfolio with a version consisting
> of large albumen prints after the paintings.
>
> But I do know that German institutions have taken note of Hanfstaengl's
> development as in this catalog :
>
> Franz Hanfstaengl : Von der Lithographie zur Photographie ; Ausstellung im
> Münchner Stadtmuseum 1. März bis 29. April 1984 / [Hrsg.] von Heinz
> Gebhardt. - München : Beck, 1984
>
> But I am not aware of the contents of this catalog, and especially I am not
> aware of a copy of the portfolios of photographs in existence. None has
> been decipherable from the on line catalogs, for example.
>
> I note in those I have seen that the paintings in Leipzig do not have any
> brown sauce on them anywhere, making it very desirable that the entire
> series should be seen by qualified scholars.
>
> Does anyone have information on the existence of this large and extensive,
> early photographic archive of master paintings?
>
> Gabriel Laderman
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