Search Results: bear hunting by paper peepshow

[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht (?), ca. 1750]. Six oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 20.0 x 16,0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, five cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a scene in a forest, with hunters chasing a bear. Preserved in an attractive 20th-century felt-covered wooden box with glass front and top (28 x 21 x 17.5 cm). = A wonderfully preserved peepshow, or Kulissenbilder, being a complete set of cards, with delicate cut-outs and hand-colouring showing a bear hunt in the woods. The cards are numbered 1-6 in an old hand on the versos. Preserved in a custom-made box, showing the scene as originally intended. "Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), a native of Augsburg was the son of a colour merchant. He began his career as an artist by the attachment to a local publishing house but had by 1708 moved to Berlin where he was engaged in the designs after Eosander von Goethe of a the Silberbüfett im Ritterall at Berlin and of a porcelain cabinet in Charlottenberg. Returning to… Read More