1603 - A collection of six copperplate engravings and etchings by D. Berger, J. Chr. Erhard, M. Klinger, and J. G. Müller from the Walter Bauer Collection. 1775–1881. Sheet sizes: 13 x 12 cm to 42.5 x 31 cm.

A collection of six copperplate engravings and etchings by D. Berger, J. Chr. Erhard, M. Klinger, and J. G. Müller from the Walter Bauer Collection. 1775–1881. Sheet sizes: 13 x 12 cm to 42.5 x 31 cm. The collection includes the following works: I–III. Daniel Berger. Portraits of Werther and Lotte based on drawings by Daniel Chodowiecki. Three copperplate engravings on copperplate paper. Each inscribed below the image with “D. Chodowiecki del.” and “D. Berger fc.” Berlin, Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1775/77. Sheet dimensions: 12.5 x 7.8 cm to 16 x 9.3 cm. - Robert Hirsch: Additions and Corrections to Daniel Chodowiecki’s Complete Collection of Copper Engravings, Described by Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig 1906, 40, 41, and 50. - Each mounted on the reverse at two points in a folding mat (the two Lotte portraits together); two sheets trimmed to the edge of the plate. - IV. Johann Christoph Erhard. The Painter Hoffmann. Etching on vellum. 1815. Sheet dimensions: 13 x 12 cm. - Apell 176 IV. - This rare sheet is mounted on backing paper at select points along the left margin; it is slightly browned, soiled, and stained; the reverse bears handwritten notes in pencil. - V. Max Klinger. Simplici’s Writing Lesson. Etching on rolled-out China paper. Typographically inscribed “Max Klinger” and numbered. 1881. Sheet dimensions: 33 x 26 cm. - From the tenth chapter of the first book of Grimmelshausen’s *Simplizissimus*. Sheet VII of the *Intermezzi* series (Opus IV), published in 1881. - The backing at the top edge is mounted on cardboard; there are minimal fingerprints overall, otherwise in good condition. - VI. Johann Gotthard Müller. Anton Graff, seated, half-length portrait. Copperplate engraving on sturdy paper. After 1797. Sheet dimensions: 42.5 x 31 cm. - Cf. Andresen (in: Naumann’s Archiv für die zeichnenden Künste 11, 1865), pp. 1–41, No. 3/I. - The engraving is based on a chalk drawing by Müller from 1797, in which Müller, in turn, copied a self-portrait of the painter Anton Graff from 1794–95 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden). - First state, prior to any inscriptions. - The sheet is somewhat browned and rubbed, with some areas showing heavier finger stains or light soiling; on the reverse, there is a handwritten note and remnants of an old mount. - Provenance: Walter Bauer Collection, Fulda.