Koch,J.A.
Modern Art Chronicle. Letters of two friends in Rome and the Tartarei on modern art life and doings; or, The Rumfordian Soup, Cooked and Written... in Rome. 2 pp, 112 pp. Karlsruhe, Velten 1834. mod. Pbd. with ribbon. Thieme-B. XXI, 85. first edition. - "As a spirited force nature K. has championed his artistic views also literarily. Koch's literary main work, in many cases enigmatic, stands in connection with the whole Roman art movement against the direction prevailing in Germany at that time and against the art writing there. In the 'Rumford's Soup' Koch discharged all his bile" (Thieme-B.). - Throughout foxing.
