From  Famous  Stud  Farm

Bürde, Friedrich (Breslau 1792 – Detmold 1849). Alcides was bred from Allahor and Emma in the Frederick Wilhelm Stud-farm in the Year 1812, he is light brown and 5 feet 4 inches high. Standing to the left with the finely drawn brand. In the middle distance in full width of the image three groups of accessories with 25 horses together, six and five resp. of them in the centre + on the right standing, resting, grazing, while to the left a throng of 14 lets of steam. Etching, partly with dry point. Inscribed in German: painted from life and etched by F: Bürde 1823. 3^rd issue / Berlin, for Simon Schropp & Comp., otherwise as above. 38.2 x 50.6 cm.

Thieme-Becker V, 194; Nagler II, 198. – Not in the Sarasin Collection (1999). – From the 3^rd issue of the “Illustrations of Excellent Horses which are in Royal Prussian Stud-farms … ” consisting of 18 etchings (1820/23) + 26 lithographs (1825 ff.). Complete here not traceable on the market the mixed copy formed by just 26 sheets from 1957 (Tenner VII/421) is the most comprehensive one known here.

Very  rare  sheet  from additionally pre-possession J. H. Anderhub, but together with further items of his extensive print collection (i. a. Rugendas) currently catalogued here his Bürdes (see also no. 28,607) did not figure in the 1963 book sale of the “Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub”.

Correspondingly to the sheet-size (53.2 x 69.2 cm) with wide margins and here, treated acid-freely, besides three longer marginal tears of 3.5-4.5 cm the one or other minimal one. Small corner tear off upper left. Three/four tiny traces of crease in the white field above of the stallion.

Bürde , “animal, especially horse and battle painter, engraver, lithographêr, and modeler, professor at the Berlin Academy”, is the son of the Silesian poet S. G. Bürde (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie III, 581 f.) highly esteemed then especially for his translation of Milton’s Paradise Lost. He made himself

“ known especially as horse painter (and devoted himself for years) to paint portraits of the most noble stud horses of the royal Prussian stud-farms for rich breeders and horse enthusiasts. From 1821 (recte 1820) he published

the  finest  stallions  of  those  institutions

in issues etched in copper. Sheets … which have the merit of well-calculated executions ”

(Nagler 1835). – And Dietrich Fröba, Grafische Arbeiten der Pferdemaler, 1996:

“ The representations of Prussian stud horses … show both Arab stallions and English thoroughbreds which were imported for the improvement of domestic horse breeding. ”

Here then one of the Frederick William stud-farm in Neustadt/Dosse founded in 1788 as one “principal stud-farm of supra-regional importance … for the Brandenburg warm-blooded breeding”, together with the district stud-farm Lindenau as stallion depot. “Till 1833 partly thoroughbred partly warm-blooded breeding was practiced, subsequently more and more pure English thoroughbred breeding”

(Friedrich Traut, Gestüte Europas, 1971, pp. 147 ff.).
Offer no. 28,606 / EUR  964. / Export price EUR  916. (c. US$ 1453.) + shipping

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