Beschrijving
Bust-length seated portrait of Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke, from the series 'Zeitgenossen'. Dräseke (Brunswick 1774 – 1849 Potsdam) was a German evangelical theologian and Bishop.
Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 285 x 206 mm., platemark 178 x 119 mm. Engraved by Johann Georg Nordheim after the painting by Georg Friedrich Adolf Schöner and published by Bibliographisches Institut, c. 1829 – ca. 1840 (publication date of the series 'Zeitgenossen').
Johann Georg Nordheim (Gehaus 1804 – 1854 Hildburghausen) was a German (reproductive) steel engraver, who specialised in portraits.
Georg Friedrich Adolf Schöner (Schweinfurt 1774 – 1841 Bremen) was a Swiss-born German painter, lithographer and printmaker. He was active from c. 1789 until his death and produced mainly portraits.
In good condition, toning and foxing in the margins, a faint dampstain in the lower margin. Lower right margin corner nicked.
