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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.

Rosenthal, Ludwig. Genuss- und Nahrungsmittel. Bier, Wein, Branntwein, Kaffee, Tee, Chocolade, Hauswirtschaft, Kochbücher, Tabak, Zucker. Katalog 138. München, (ca. 1914). 52 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers (slightly browned). (# 5518)

Gastronomical bookseller's catalogue containing 787 entries. With large sections on beer, wine and brandy; coffee, tea, chocolate; cookery-books; opium, tobacco; sugar. - Slightly browned.

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).

Ugolini, Antonio (Bologna 1680's-unknown). The effects of wine: Love. Charming oblong etching of a bacchanale: four putti in landscape with tree; two each other kissing putti are lying on a jug with grapes, to the right a putto is drinking wine from a bottle, to the left behind them a putto is watching them; inscribed in the margin at lower center: "Ugolinus Inve: et Scul". 13 x 19 cm. (# 5861)

The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB), XLV, 448, No. 003 (present in Berlin, Hamburg, Parma). Nagler, Monogrammisten, V, No. 1190 (only this etching). Not in Le Blanc, Bartsch, Nagler, Thieme-Becker. Very rare etching by the Italian painter and etcher Antonio Ugolini. "This etching belongs to a series of at least five sheets, which represent putti in various states caused by the effects of wine" (TIB). But none of the by TIB consulted collections owns all five sheets. "Antonio Ugolini is an artist whose production is largely lost... Ugolini was born in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century (within the early years of the 1680's) and was primarily active in Siena... It is known from letters... that he was in Rome in 1702... It is also certain that he was present in Florence... The sources reveal very few facts about Antonio Ugolini's activity as an etcher" (TIB). - Slight discolouring of paper; good impression with ample margins.

Ugolini, Antonio (Bologna 1680's-unknown). The effects of wine: Rows. Charming oblong etching of a bacchanale: six fighting putti, two lying backwards on top of each other on a jug; one of them holding a bunch of grapes in his hand, another bunch of grapes in front of them on the ground; inscribed in the margin at lower left: "Ugolinus Inven. et Sculp:". 13 x 18,7 cm. (# 5862)

The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB), XLV, 452, No. 007 (present in Hamburg, Parma). Not in Le Blanc, Bartsch, Nagler, Nagler Monogrammisten, Thieme-Becker. Very rare etching by the Italian painter and etcher Antonio Ugolini. "This etching belongs to a series of at least five sheets, which represent putti in various states caused by the effects of wine" (TIB). But none of the by TIB consulted collections owns all five sheets. "Antonio Ugolini is an artist whose production is largely lost... Ugolini was born in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century (within the early years of the 1680's) and was primarily active in Siena... It is known from letters... that he was in Rome in 1702... It is also certain that he was present in Florence... The sources reveal very few facts about Antonio Ugolini's activity as an etcher" (TIB). - Trimmed within plate-mark, not affecting image; small waterstain in top, tiny pin-prick hole in top of border. Good impression.