Wendish Peasant Girl in Working + Sunday-Dress from the Spreewald. Standing in the boat and poling and in church resp. 2 ll. Colored woodcuts after Adolf Burger (Warsaw 1833 – Berlin 1876). C. 1878. Inscribed: X. A. Hopp Leipsic / Adolf Burger, otherwise as above. 20 x 13 cm.

From Lipperheide Ad 46. – LEAVES FOR COSTUME KNOWLEDGE N.S. 95-96. – Burger was pupil of Carl Steffeck and “specialized in the depiction of the life of the Sorbs foremost in the Spreewald” (Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon XV, 1997, p. 200).
Offer no. 6,016 / EUR  98. (c. US$ 136.) + shipping

“ Received the Heron Hawking today, it is exceptionally nice. Thank you for packing so carefully … ”

(Mr. L. A. F., December 6, 2005)