ANDREAS GROLL (1812-1872) Lot n° 70

Rüstangen et Waffen Der K. K. Ambraser Sammlung I-II Publié par Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienne, 1859 Célèbre recueil d'armures des empereurs et rois européens, et l'un des plus beaux livres illustrés par des papiers salés, produit sur commande. Élégant exemplaire de tout premier tirage, relié en 2 albums in folio. On remarque en effet que tous les tirages sont sur papiers salés alors que les exemplaires successifs contiennent progressivement des tirages albuminés. 1er volume: 88 pages de texte précèdent la liste des tirages. 72 tirages sur papier salé (format variable entre 240x140 mm et 290x mm), toutes précédées d'une page annonçant le sujet. 2ème volume: 67 pages de texte précèdent la liste des tirages. 56 tirages sur papier salé (format variable entre 21,5 x 14,3 et 29 x 23 cm), toutes précédées d'une page annonçant le sujet. Complete edition in 2 volumes, including 128 salt paper prints and texts by Dr. Ed. Freiherrn von Sacken In 1547 Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria started assembling the Heroes andVassals Armory which he eventually arranged as a museum in the castle of Ambras, located above Innsbruck.This collection is probably the most famous of its kind. As royal property, the collection was removed to Vienna when the French and Bavarians invaded the country and, on the occasion of the Congress ofVienna in 1814 - 15, it was set up in the baroque assembly rooms of the imperial Belvedere Castle, the single-story summer palace of Austria's greatest war hero,Prince Eugene of Savoy. In 1855, Eduard Freiherm von Sacken published a two volume history of this collection, titled Ambraser Sammlung. Four years later this impressive photographic atlas was pub- lished in original parts and in this magnificent publishers binding. The photographs are by the noted Austrian photographer Andreas Groll. Starting as a daguerreian artist, Groll opened a studio inVienna in 1857 and began producing salt prints and early albumen photographs. He is best known for landscapes and the et