Beschrijving
Portrait of the actress Marie Strassmann-Damböck, bust-length, looking to the right and wearing leaves in her hair.
Engraving and stipple work on chilne-collé, sheet size 292 x 193 mm., platemark 263 x 164 mm. Engraving by August Weger, after an anonymous photograph. Published by Th. Zehl jr. (Leipzig).
August Weger (Nuremberg 1823-1892 Leipzig) was a German steel engraver, active from c. 1840 to 1870. From 1849 he worked in Leipzig.
In fair condition, doubled on grey-blue paper, quite some foxing and soiling in the margins, some foxing in the image area. A horizontal crease from the left marign into the image area. With a collection mark (Lugt 4100, non identified) stamped on the verso.
