Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and United States--West (U.S.)
"A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Tegg's caricatures ; no. 45
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 193., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. October 25th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Medical diseases -- Dropsy -- Consumption -- Mausoleums., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.