Lot 129: Friedrich Wilhelm Klose (from 1839: Kloss), Ansich

Friedrich Wilhelm Klose (from 1839: Kloss), Ansichten aus Berlin und Umgebung, Most drawings are titled, two are also signed and dated respectively, three are monogrammed, Sketchbook with drawings in pencil on 49 sheets of paper, of which 23 sheets are under mats, bound together in a hand-made album of gold-embossed calfskin, Circa 1861/63, 4 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.

Slight foxing throughout, some also with pale water stains, the bound drawings slightly undulating

Auktion 64: Das alte Berlin. Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik [...]. Berlin, Paul Graupe, 8.5.1926, cat. no. 408 (sketchbook not yet taken apart) / P. F. C. Wille: Unbekannte Darstellungen aus dem alten Berliner Rathaus kurz vor dessen Abbruch. In: Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, Neue Folge no. 5, 1 Juli 1966, p. 61-66, here the two illustrations on p. 63 (no. 16 in the album) and ill. p. 65 (no. 14 in the albumn) / P. F.-C. Wille: Die alte Dorfkirche von Tegel und die Familie von Humboldt. In: Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, vol. 67, no. 2, 1.4.1971, p. 30-32, ill. p. 31 (no. 35 in the album) / Sibylle Gramlich: Architekturmalerei im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland“. Berlin, Freie Universität, diss. 1990, p. 369, fn. 124

Formerly collection Dr. P. F.-C. Wille, Hanover (1926 acquired at Graupe, thence by descent to the present owner)