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Le Banquet [toy]

Accession number
PML 88512
Published
[Augsburg : Martin Engelbrecht, 17--]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title from slip-case.
Library's copy withhout optical box.
Attributed to the firm of engraver and publisher, Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg. He obtained an imperial privilege to publish peep-shows from 1719, thereby eliminating any competition from other publishing houses. Artists Jeremias Wachsmuth or David Nessenthaler may have collaborated on the illustrations. The peepshows were published in three formats: Large format, ca. 15.5 x 20.8 cm ; medium format, ca. 9.2 x 14.3 cm ; and small format, ca. 7.3 x 9.0 cm. The large and medium formats were published with a title page, while no title pages are known to have been printed for the small format. Also, the small format cards do not have any serial numbers, possibly due to cropping of the margins.
This peepshow is in the large format. It contains six etchings, recently mounted in accordion form; all of the views are hand-colored and have been cut out, except for the sixth which forms the backdrop and has N 59 printed at lower margin. The prints are without any text, title page, or impressum extant in the lower margins.
The prints depict a banquet hosted in a salon. The front cut-out print shows servants attending to the tables. The following four cut-out prints show two tables each: ladies are seated at the tables to the left, playing various board and card games, while gentlemen are at the tables to the right, conversing while smoking their pipes, eating, and drinking. The backdrop shows the end wall of the salon with two fireplaces and servants entering the room with trays of supplies for the guests.
Library's copy: panels joined with modern paper hinges.
On the backs of the second, third, and fourth cut-out prints written in pencil: festen (Danish for: the banquet)
Description
1 peepshow (6 prints) : etchings, handcol. ; closed: 16.5 x 20.7 x 0.8 cm; expanding to: 49 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Marbled paper slip-case with title written in black ink on a label, attached to the front. .
Classification
Department