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Bier Zeitung 12. October 1874. 1874. Nice humoristic drawing in pen and black ink on paper, showing a procession of men with a large coffee-kettle, some men holding a coffee cup, one with a coffeemill; in front to the left a man kneading dough for Brezel's, to the right three men playing at dice, one smoking, to the right a standing men with a glass of beer; 3 dogs, 2 devouring a cat. ca. 21,7 x 27,7 cm. (# 5805)

Probably designed for a Munich (Münchner) periodical on beer. - Pasted on cardboard, lightly browned, 2 white stains in blank margin.

Saint-Non, Richard abbé de (Paris 1727 - 1791). Rural scene with many people eating, drinking, playing a kind of jeu de boules, cows, dogs, after Jean Baptiste Bénard. 1755. Charming etching, signed in the plate on a wine barrel "S. Non Sc." and lettered underneath "Benard Pinxit. St. Non Sculp. 1755", in the centre underneath "Tiré du Cabinet de Mr de La Live de Julie". 23,7 x 29 cm. (# 2233)

Not in Le Blanc. For the etcher and aquatinter Abbé Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non see: Thieme-Becker XXIX, 326. The original painting by the French painter Jean Baptiste Bénard (died 1789 or before) belonged to the collection of the wealthy French art collector Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully (1725-1779), who favoured works by contemporary French artists; his collection was sold in 1770. - Good impression, with margins. Collector's stamp on verso of "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Vivares, François (Lodève 1709-London 1780). Landscape with a stream, a woman with basket and a man fishing, two boys to the left, after Gaetano Martorelli. London, F. Vivares, 1754. Fine large oblong etching and engraving, lettered below the image "Engraved from a Picture of Martorelli. Martorelli Pinxt. F. Vivares Sculp. Publishd Jany. 15th. 1754, by F. Vivares. 9". 39 x 49 cm. (# 5859)

Nagler XXIII, 214, No. 54. In database British Museum: "Landscape with a stream falling around a boulder into a deep pool in the foreground, broadening as it flows away into the right foreground, overshadowed by a steep rocky cliff on the right, covered with bushes and dead tree trunks, a woman carrying a basket and a man fishing on the near bank, two boys further to the left, near a path which winds through a hilly landscape extending into the distance on the left;... plate 9 from an unidentified series...". Second state (of 3), with plate number. François or Francis Vivares, a French and British engraver and publisher, was born in Lodève near Montpellier or in S.Jean de Bruel de Rouergue in 1709, worked in Paris and moved to London in 1727. He had a very high reputation in France and is considered to be one of the founders of the English school of landscape engraving. Gaetano Martorelli, a painter of landscapes from Napoli, was born c. 1670 and died 1723. - Trimmed within plate-mark, lower blank margin slightly thumbed.