Johan Gram - Galerij van beroemde toonkunstenaren. Twaalf oleographiën met bijschriften met bijschriften van - 1873

Johan Gram: Gallery of famous musical masters. Twelve oleographs with captions by Johan Gram. Manufactured and published by the stone lithography of Emrik & Binger in Haarlem. (1873). Folio format Black original half linen binding. Top and bottom of the spine slightly worn. Front cover has been damp. Edges somewhat worn. Front endpapers once also somewhat damp. Binding and paper otherwise good. Complete with the 12 very fine oleographs by Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Weber, Mendelssohn, Bach, Wagner, Handel, Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Gluck and Schumann. All photogravured. With the descriptions of these gentlemen.

** Very rare. In WorldCat. only 1 copy known in the Netherlands.


The main features of this work:

• Publication: It was issued in the period 1873–1874 in Haarlem.
• Printer & Publisher: The renowned lithographic printing house Emrik & Binger handled the production. They were known at the time for their high-quality color prints.
• Text writer: The captions and biographical notes accompanying the plates were provided by the Hague writer and art critic Johan Gram (1833–1913).
• Content: The edition contains 12 oleographs (color stone prints that reproduce the texture and appearance of an oil painting) with portraits of iconic composers.
• Artists: Many of the depicted portraits (such as those of Ludwig van Beethoven and Georg Friedrich Händel) were made after paintings by the German portrait painter Carl Jaeger (1833–1887).