Johann Heinrich Lips "Hope" / "Reunion". 1816. Johann Heinrich Lips1758 Kloten - 1817 Zurich. Aquatints on cream handmade paper. Depictions in high oval, inscribed below "JH Lips del. et sculp." and extensively titled. Nagler 17; 18. Overall slightly creased and with darkened margins."Hope" wavy as well as with wax spots. Margins browned and with small lesions (max. 1 cm). Margins circled with a black line in lead. "Wiedersehen" with tear at r. plate margin (ca. 4 cm). Dimensions: pl. 24 x 19 cm, sheet 29 x 23 cm. Johann Heinrich Lips 1758 Kloten - 1817 Zurich Lips was an engraver and painter living in Mannheim and Düsseldorf, where he got the title of a professor.In 1782 he went to Rome to draw at the Vatican and at the Farnesina among other things after Raphael. On another trip to Rome from 1786 to 1789 he established friendly relations with Goethe. From 1785 he devoted himself mainly to painting and became professor at the Weimar drawing academy in 1989. In 1794 Lips retired to Zurich for health reasons.