Author: SOYTER, Magnus.
Title: [Collection of watercolour drawings with manuscript captions].[Augsburg], 1849-1853. 13 loose wove paper folio leaves and 1 loose wove paper bifolium. Large folio (55 x 35 cm). With 64 watercolours and manuscript captions on 15 leaves (each leaf drawn on one side only).
Description: [15] ll.Collection of impressive watercolour drawings after Medieval art objects by Magnus Soyter (1806-1884). Soyter was an Augsburg-based collector of German medieval art who made watercolour reproductions of the objects that he owned with added captions in ink containing information about the object depicted. He was highly skilled in the art of watercolour and his large reproduction drawings are exquisite. He is now best known for his collection of medieval knight's helmets that have ended up in museum collections worldwide.The objects displayed in the present drawings come from Soyter’s private collection, as the manuscript captions indicate. Many of the artifacts included in the drawings are now lost so that the present watercolour drawings are the only record of some superb Medieval German pieces.Wholly untrimmed. In very good condition.

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