alb30848063
Album with depictions of Nuremberg, Dinkelsbühl, and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, photograph album, insert album, collector's album, postcard album, Album with 90 picture postcards in black and white and color on 104 pages. On the album is a pressed round frame with an angel above it and the word 'Album' below it. Inside the frame, 'Nurnberg, Dinkelsburg, Rothenburg, 1922' is handwritten. On the flyleaf and the first and last pages of the album is a cliché depiction of a stagecoach in a mountain landscape. The inserted picture postcards are photographs and photomechanical prints of cityscapes from Nuremberg, and Rothenburg, as well as graphic interpretations of life in these Bavarian cities. The picture postcards were collected by artist Jan Petrus Ponstijn., retailer's mark: 'JA Smits, Huisvlijtbenodigdheden, van, Sinderam & Co. Amsterdam, Willemsparkweg 166, Tel. South 4790', compiler (person in literature): Jan Petrus Ponstijn, maker: various manufacturers, 1922, compiler (person in literature), paper, pasteboard, baryta paper, pasting, stapling, printing block, pressing, writing (processes), gelatin silver print, collotype, rotogravure, color lithography, album with sturdy cardboard cover with blind-printed text and illustration on the front and inside stapled and pasted pages of cardboard with loose picture postcards inserted, partly photographs and partly photomechanical prints on cardboard, height 186 mm x width 125 mm x width 260 mm x thickness 48 mm, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), public ridicule, scorn, Bavaria, Nuremberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber., A tan, textured background with a circular floral wreath drawn in dark ink near the upper half, the wreath made of a continuous strand of stylized flowers and leaves; atop the wreath sits a small sketched figure of a child holding an open book, the child's legs dangling over the wreath; the lower area shows faint decorative flourishes and a cursive wo.
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