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70 andreas groll (1812-1872)
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 290x205
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 pho-
tographic atlas was pub- lished in original parts and in this magnificent publi-
shers 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 ethnographic costume and architectural studies he created
in Poland, Germany, and Austro-Hungary. He exhibited in Paris (1855)
and Vienna (1864) and Count Aguado included him in the seventh Exposi-
tion of the SFP 1865. That year he also published an extensive catalog of his
works for sale. (Cf Paul Herzmann catalogue, lot 8)