19th century AD

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2004 by DeCourcy E. McIntosh

(12) For example, on June 5, 1847, the Literary World commented, "We never saw the faculty of listening so exquisitely portrayed as it is here," vol. 1, no. 18, p. 419.

(13) See ibid., vol. 3, no. 12 (April 22, 1848), p. 228. When published as a lithograph by Alphonse Leon Noel (1807-1884), the title became The Power of Music.

(14) Knoedler, who was born on October 10, 1823, to a family of landowning farmers in the hamlet of Seelach in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, found employment, presumably in the print trade, in the early 1840s in the capital city of the kingdom, Stuttgart, and there encountered Adolphe Goupil in 1844. From 1844, he resided in Paris until the latter half of 1852, when Goupil sent him to New York.

(15) See Frankenstein, William Sidney Mount, pp. 152-169.

(16) Entry for September 24, 1852, Superior Court, New York County, bundle 30, record 262 (Naturalization Records, National Archives Records Administration, New York City; Soundex code S200, cabinet 59, roll 238).

(17) Himely and Salathe rendered in aquatint the watercolors made after original sketches by Auguste, comte de Forbin (1777-1841) for Achille Gigault de La Salle, Voyage pittoresque en Sicile ..., published by Jean Frederic d'Ostervald, 2 vols. (Paris, 1822-1826).

(18) John W. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America ... (University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1984), p. 186.

(19) His illustrations appear, for example, in the Child's Companion, and Youth's Friend, a periodical published by the American Sunday-School Union.

(20) The print, entitled Wall Street, N.Y. 1847, was drawn by Kollner, lithographed by Deroy, and published by Vermilye and Company. A copy is in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

(21) The print encyclopedist, Henri Beraldi (1849-1931), characterizes Deroy as a "lithographe infatigable" (tireless lithographer) in Les graveurs du XIXe siecle. Guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris, 1885-1892), vol. 5, p. 186.

(22) Ernest Gambart, born in Belgium, was to become one of the most renowned art dealers and art publishers in London in the nineteenth century. At the beginning of his career, while living in Paris, he became a friend of Theodore Vibert and through Vibert was dispatched to London in 1840 as the Maison Goupil's representative. In 1842 he established a partnership in London under the name of "Gambart & Junin" and thereafter rose rapidly in the art world. He is best known as the successful promoter of Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair and Holman Hunt's The Light of the World (see Jeremy Maas, Gambart, Prince of the Victorian Art World [Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1975]).

(23) Literary World, vol. 3, no. 45 (December 9, 1848), p. 901.

(24) Ibid., vol. 6, no. 10 (March 9, 1850), p. 227.

(25) See Deuxieme Partie du Catalogue de la Maison Goupil et compagnie, Comprennant les Supplements publies du ler Janvier 1848 au 1 Janvier 1857, pp. 18-20 (a copy is in the Musee Goupil, Bordeaux.)

(26) Literary World, vol. 3, no. 38 (October 21, 1848), p. 754.

(27) Trobriand was something of a polymath in the arts. His opera reviews appeared in the francophone New York newspaper Le Courrier des Etats-Unis, of which he became the editor in 1841.