60 ETCHINGS FROM DENKUCH DER FRANZOSISCHEN REVOLUTION. 1816.

N.p. (Berlin?): Christoph Muller Memmingen, 1816

Sixty-four separate original etchings (each 23 x 30.5cm) made by Franz Eugen Freiherrn von Seida und Landensberg (1772-1826) based on various earlier works by Pierre Gabriel Berthault, Jean-Louis Prieur, and others.

This was the first German publication of these works taken from French earlier productions. The original portfolio has been split up leaving these 64 individual sheets – but the images are of the major events of the Revolution including, for instance,  the storming of the Bastille, the forced leaving of Versaille by Louis and Marie-Antoinette on October 6, 1789, Mirabeau’s funeral on 4 April 1791, the Celebration of the Federation on the Champs de Mars on 14 July 1790, the arrest of Cecile-Aimee Renault (1774-1794) at the house of Robespierre on 22 May 1794, the arrest of Robespierre on 27 July 1794, and other important events including early military actions by Napoleon Bonaparte.

There are some stains on a number of the plates bottom left and one or two have some nascent foxing but the majority are VG+ even after 200 years. The cover sheet for the portfolio is also present.

The price is for all 64 etchings as a set but we may consider selling individual plates – do enquire.