Sir John Falstaff in dem Schausp: Heinrich IV [graphic].

Sir John Falstaff in dem Schauspiel Heinrich IV

Berlin : Eigenthum der Verlags-Handlung von Cosmar et Krause, [ca. 1832]

8 prints : lithograph

paper

Dealer's description: Large 8vo., 8 unnumbered leaves, each with a lithograph of Ludwig Devrient as Falstaff and a quotation from the play, tissue guards; original pictorial wrappers featuring, on the front, a shield bering a coat-of-arms (goblets and wine vats, the crest a portly man astride a barrel holding a goblet and a flagon) and a wide belt, on which the title is written, beneath, extending onto the back cover, which also shows a mask with grapes and vine leaves for hair; spotting to some of the plates, old grease spots to back cover. Ludwig Devrient (1784-1832), 'the greatest of all [German] Romantic actors' (Williams), revelled in finding a role he could get his teeth into. Devrient had before proved himself in roles such as Shylock and King Lear (his chronic alcoholism notwithstanding), and his appearance as Fasltaff in March 1817 won universal public acclaim.... This suite of lithographs was presumably brought out following Devrient's death. The Berlin publisher Alexander Cosmar (1805-1842) was particularly interested in the stage. He wrote a number of Festspiele himself, and published the Berliner Theateralmanach (1836-41) and the Dramatische Salon (1839-42).

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