Marienberg – Boppard – Lasinsky, Johann Adolf (Simmern 1808 – Dusseldorf 1871). (Cloister Marienberg near Boppard.) The picturesquely situated cloister with view also into the vegetable garden. In the foreground resting vine grower’s couple. Toned pen lithograph. Inscribed: (Recorded from nature and lithographed by J. A. Lasinsky 1828. / Frankfort a/M. C. Jügel.), title as above in German-French parallel text. 23 x 29.2 cm.
In its nervous line conduct ahead of its time ,
unmistakably, and promptly lithographed after own sketch, and thus “standing out highly advantageously from the leaves of much smaller size engraved after him by other artists … Lasinsky’s ‘sensibility, keenest power of observation, realistic study of nature, and talent for large wide landscapes’ have been praised” (Schulte). – Very rarely represented locality .
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