CARL WILHELM KOLBE THE ELDER

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• The Cow in a Swamp ca. 1799
  
  etching on wove paper; 305 x 414 mm (12 1/16 x 16 5/16 inches)
  
  Jentsch 237; Martens 89 second state (of four)

  LITERATURE
  Antony Griffiths/Frances Carey, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, British Museum, London, 1994, no. 73
  Carl Wilhem Kolbe d. Ä. Künstler, Philologe, Patriot, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau/Städtische Galerie, Paderborn/Kunsthaus Zürich, Petersberg 2009, no. 27
  Christien Melzer, Idyllisches Arkadien. Landschaftsradierungen von Carl Wilhelm Kolbe d. Ä., Kunsthalle Bremen, 2013–14, no. 1
  John Ittmann, The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770–1850, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017, no. 143

  A very good impression in excellent, untreated condition; with wide margins all round.

• Große Baumlandschaft - Wooded Landscape
  
  etching on wove paper, ca. 1802/03; 325 x 427 mm
  
  Jentsch 138; Martens 223 second state (of two)

  A very good impression in excellent condition.

• Englische Gartenpartie (Wörlitz bei der Goldnen Urne)
  
  engraving; 116 x 145 mm
  
  Jentsch 5; Martens 110 second state (of two)

• Danse de Jeunes Garcons
  
  etching; 360 x 290 mm
  
  Jentsch 315; Martens 298 third state (of three)

• Reitender Satyr eine Nymphe entführend
  
  engraving; 353 x 290 mm
  
  Jentsch 51; Martens 173 third state (of three)