Otto Speckter 1807 – Hamburg – 1871

1807 – Hamburg – 1871
”Siegfried erblickt Kriemhild (Sigfrid und Sigurd)”. 1845. (+ 4 supplements).
Pen over pencil on paper. 12,1 × 10,3 cm (15,3 × 14,1 cm). (4 ¾ × 4 in. (6 × 5 ½ in.)) Sheet 1: Inscribed in pencil on the lower left of the backing: Otto Speckter. Catalogue raisonné: Braunfels 169. Design for the illustration in: Karl L. Biernatzki (ed.): Volksbuch für das Jahr 1845. Zweiter Jahrgang, Kiel 1845. Supplements: 1) Otto Speckter: "Entwurf zum Frontispiz der englischen Ausgabe der Fabeln". Circa 1858. pen over pencil on paper, 15.3 x 11.8 x cm. Braunfels 229. Inscribed in pencil on the backing lower left: Otto Speckter / Titelblatt zur englischen Fabelausgabe. - Design for the frontispiece (there mirror-inverted) of: Picture Fables drawn by Otto Speckter with Rhymes from the German of Hey. London 1858 (cf. Hobrecker 40a). Inscribed in pencil on the backing at upper right: Kleines Passepartout für Schauladen [?]. On the back in pencil at the lower centre: (4). In the lower right corner in pencil: Ello. 2) Otto Speckter: "Es ritten drei Ritter zum Thore hinaus". Circa 1842/46. pen-and-ink drawing in black with corrections in red chalk on paper, 26.3 × 21.1 cm Braunfels 113. draft for illustration in: Deutsche Dichtungen mit Randzeichnungen Deutscher Künstler. 2 vols. Düsseldorf, Julius Buddeus, 1842 a. 1846, here vol. 2, p. 10 (compare Hobrecker 21b). Firmly mounted on light green, light cardboard (43,3 x 30,3 cm) at the back margin. Inscribed in pencil on the lower back of the backing cardboard: in the centre: (4); corner lower left: Otto Speckter / This sheet appeared in a collection of poems (Düsseldorf)? / in which the paper "In einem kühlen Grunde" also appeared. Corner lower right by another hand: XI. 3) Lorenz Frølich: Venus and Cupid. 1854. pen-and-ink drawing in black over pencil on paper, 7,4 x 10 cm. Monogrammed lower right (ligatured; cf. Goldstein 1964, p. 233): LF. Glued on cardboard (10,2 x 31,2 cm) at the back corners (corner detached at upper left). Inscribed in pencil on the backing lower left: 33. Lower right in pencil by another hand: Fröhlich? Inscribed on the reverse lower left in pencil: L. Fröhlich 1854. Lower right in another hand in pencil: Ello. 4) Erwin and Otto Speckter: "Der kleine Morgen" by Philipp Otto Runge. 1825. Lithograph on paper, 44,9 x 35,7 cm. Inscribed in the stone at the lower margin: auf Stein gezeichnet von Erwin und Otto Speckter in Hamburg 1825. - On Runge: Traeger 414. [3018]

Provenance
Collection of the Hamburg artist family Speckter
Addendum/ErratumSupplement 1 not included (Otto Speckter, „Entwurf zum Frontispiz der englischen Ausgabe der Fabeln“).
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