6518 - Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus

Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, before Stralsund. Black pen and gray brush, traces of white highlights, on vellum. 9 x 5.4 cm. Signed "D: Chodowiecki" in the lower right corner. Circa 1791. Original drawing for a pocket calendar illustration engraved by Friedrich Christian Geyser for the “History of the Thirty Years’ War” in the “Historical Calendar for Ladies for the Year 1791,” edited by Friedrich Schiller. Also included by Chodowiecki are two additional sketches depicting scenes from the life of Henry VIII: “"The Coronation of Anne Boleyn" and "Thomas More on the Scaffold" for two monthly copperplate engravings (February and March) in the Gotha Calendar for the year 1797 (each in black-and-gray pen over pencil, retouched with a stump and blackened on the reverse, on handmade paper. Each approx. 8.5 x 5 cm. Inscribed at the bottom: “Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, is crowned” and “Thomas More prays on the scaffold,” respectively). - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is only indicated in the catalog in exceptional cases. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.