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(SENN, JOHANNES, GERHARD LUDVIG LAHDE (& possibly C.W. ECKERSBERG) )
Reference : 60268
(1806)
Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn. 6 Hæfter (six issues). - [THE COSTUMES OF COPENHAGEN]
Lahde, (1806 - ca. 1814) + (ca. 1818-20 for the final three plates). Small folio (binding: 31,7 x 20,6 cm). Bound in an elegant pastiche half calf by Anker Kyster, with lovely gilt spine, old marbled paper boards and beautiful hand-made patterned end-papers. Bound with four of the exceedingly scarce title-pages/front wrappers for issues one, one/two three, and five, stating which plates were in the issue in question. Complete with all 34 magnificent engraved plates of costumes, all on large, good paper and in exquisite, precise original handcolouring. Most of the leaves measure 31 x 20,2 cm, one (En Brand Officer) measures 28x19,5. At the end are withbound the three final plates that were issued a bit later, with the complete ediiton of 1820. Thus making the final plate count 37. The three final plates all measure 28x20 cm. The two first plates have been neatly restored at upper right corner, far from affecting image. Otherwise, the copy is in magnificent condition. With the ex-libris of Oskar Davidsen to verso of front free end-paper.
![Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn. 6 Hæfter (six issues). - [THE COSTUMES OF COPENHAGEN]. (SENN, JOHANNES, GERHARD LUDVIG LAHDE (& possibly C.W. ECKERSBERG) ...](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60268_1_thumb.jpg)
![Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn. 6 Hæfter (six issues). - [THE COSTUMES OF COPENHAGEN]. (SENN, JOHANNES, GERHARD LUDVIG LAHDE (& possibly C.W. ECKERSBERG) ...](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60268_2_thumb.jpg)
![Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn. 6 Hæfter (six issues). - [THE COSTUMES OF COPENHAGEN]. (SENN, JOHANNES, GERHARD LUDVIG LAHDE (& possibly C.W. ECKERSBERG) ...](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60268_3_thumb.jpg)
The exceedingly scarce first edition of Senn and Lahde’s (with the possible collaboration of Eckersberg) magnificent ”Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn” (Costumes in Copenhagen), which is the first work devoted to costumes of the Danish capital and thus of seminal historical importance to the understanding of Copenhagen folklore at the brink of the golden age. The magnificent plates are of unusually high quality and differ from those of other works of this kind in being more artistically ambitious. The plates show attempts at depicting action and movement and portraying a certain situation. They are much less stiff than other costume plates of the period, and the features of the persons in the pictures show an intentional individualization. In short, they are much more closely related to the genre painting than would be expected. This highly important and extensive collection of Copenhagen costumes was made in Denmark, by foreigners and with an international aim. The Swiss painter and engraver Johannes Senn (1780-1861) spent 15 years in Denmark, from 1804 till 1819, and the German-born Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765-1833) came to Copenhagen in 1787 in order to attend the Art Academy and later became a Danish citizen. The two artists find themselves at the beginning of a period, in which national feeling, the strengthened sense of nationality, and a romantic view of nature are rapidly growing a period in which the interest in “common” man and the people of a nation are becoming the centre of attention. Out of this grows the need to represent the people, the “real” population, to the rest of the world and to claim a specific sense of what it is to be, in this case, a Copenhagener. “Klædedragter i Kjøbenhavn” began appearing in 1806, and we know that by 1810, three issues with six plates in each (i.e. 18 plates) had appeared. The following three issues appeared shortly after, though not all containing six plates (the fifth issue, as is evident from the exceedingly scarce title/wrapper bound in the present copy, only contained four plates), amounting to 34 plates in all. These plates later appeared in Lahde’s “Elementarværk I Tegnekunsten (1817-18), and a selection of 12 plates were issued separately under the title “Karakteristiske Figurer eller Det daglige Liv i Hovedstaden” (1812). A further three plates were issued later (these three plates have been added to the present copy), and in 1820, all 37 plates appeared together. In 1830, the work appeared again, this time with 35 plates, under the title “Kjøbenhavns Klædedragter eller Det Daglige Liv i Hovedstaden”. Provenance: Oskar Davidsen, one of the most significant Danish book collectors, whose collection included virtually all illuminated and coloured Danish books. (Colas: 1721 for the later edition, not having the original)
En Kiöbenhavnsk Vægter / Ein Copenhagner Nachtwächter.
Kbhvn., G.L Lahde, 1808-12. Håndkoloreret kobberstik. 25 x 18 cm. Lidt gulplettet.
Fra ""Dansk Klædedragter"". Krohn 1214. Tegnet af Johannes Senn (1780-1861).
Danske Nationale Klædedragter - Dänische National Kleidertrachten. - [THE FIRST DANISH WORK ON NATIONAL COSTUMES]
(København, ca. 1805-08). 4to. Near contemporary (ca. 1850) full brown calf with richly gilt spine and blindstamped border to boards. Spine worn and capitals lacking a bit of leather. Front hinge cracked, strengthened from verso. Internally very nice and fresh with only occasional brownspotting. With the book-plate of John Arden to inside of front board. Bound with the original wrappers for the fourth and ninth series. The front wrapper for the ninth has the title written in English in contemporary hand to the top right (slightly cropped), in ink that seems identical to the ""9"" denoting the series number. 57 (out of in all 72 published) engraved an excellently hand-coloured plates of costumes, one present in two copies (plate nr. 67). All plates with Danish and German text in the plate. Apart from two leaves that are slightly smaller, the leaves measure 25,5x19 cm. The print surface on all measures 20,5 x 14 cm.
![Danske Nationale Klædedragter - Dänische National Kleidertrachten. - [THE FIRST DANISH WORK ON NATIONAL COSTUMES]. "RIETER, JACOB og JOHANNES SENN.](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60296_1_thumb.jpg)
![Danske Nationale Klædedragter - Dänische National Kleidertrachten. - [THE FIRST DANISH WORK ON NATIONAL COSTUMES]. "RIETER, JACOB og JOHANNES SENN.](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60296_2_thumb.jpg)
![Danske Nationale Klædedragter - Dänische National Kleidertrachten. - [THE FIRST DANISH WORK ON NATIONAL COSTUMES]. "RIETER, JACOB og JOHANNES SENN.](https://static.livre-rare-book.com/pictures/LLX/60296_3_thumb.jpg)
An unusually large collection of 57 of the rare plates that constitute the first Danish work on national costumes. The work is of the utmost scarcity, with only one known complete copy in public institutions (Danish University Library - the copy in the Royal Library is also incomplete). The title is known solely from the wrappers that each series of six plates was issued with. These wrappers are also exceedingly scarce and almost never present. Our copy contains two of them. As always, the issue number has been added in hand. Rieter and Senn were both born and educated in Switzerland and both arrived in Copenhagen in 1804. They studied costumes on Sealand, the West Sea Islands, and Holsten. The series of costumes is divided into two sections, the first depicting those of Copenhagen (along with Amager) and Sealand, the other that of Southern Jutland, including Holsten and the North Friesian Islands. Rieter left Copenhagen already in 1805, and Senn was left to complete the publication. It is assumed that Senn did most of the drawings. Only very few complete copies of the work are known to exist, only one in public collections. Colas states that “I do not know the exact number of plates to have been published in this collection, which is very rare. The copy of Lipperheide contains 56 plates, and that of the University of Copenhagen has 72.” (Own translation from French). Lipperheide 1045 (56 plates)" Bibl. Danica II: 1080 (incomplete) Colas: 2557 Krohn: 873-944.
Danske Nationale Klædedragter - Dänische National Kleidertrachten. - [FIRST DANISH WORK ON NATIONAL COSTUMES]
(København, ca. 1805-08). 4to. Varierende bladstørrelser. Trykflade ca. 20x15 cm. Med 59 kobberstukne og håndkolorerede dragtplancher samt 6 tillægsplancher i tusch og akvarel. Alle med dansk og tysk tekst under billedet. Indlagt i bogæske af helshirt.
Af største sjældenhed. Der udkom i alt 72 blade af denne, Danmarks første arbejde om vore nationaldragter, men en komplet serie kendes kun i ganske få eksemplarer - kun et eksemplar forefindes i offentlige biblioteker (UB, mens eksemplaret i KB ikke er fuldstændigt). Titlen kendes kun fra de 12 hefteomslag, som medfulgte udgivelsen, de er ikke til stede her. Rieter og Senn, som begge var født og uddannet i Schweitz, ankom til København i 1804, de gjorde dragtstudier på Sjælland, på Vesterhavsøerne og i Holsten. Serien af dragtplancher er opdelt i 2 afdelinger, den første viser københavnske (med Amager) og sjællandske dragter, mens den sidste gengiver sønderjydske (Holsten og de nordfrisiske øer). Denne sidste afdeling med ialt 37 plancher foreligger her komplet, og blev genudgivet 1909 af Karl Häberlin i ""Volkstrachten der nordfriesischen Inseln"". Rieter forlod København allerede i 1805, således måtte Senn fuldføre udgivelsen. Antageligt har Senn udført de fleste af tegningerne. De medfølgende 6 originale akvarel-plancher supplerer serien, således at den omfatter ialt 65. (Disse kopier fra Det 19.årh. har flg. numre hos Krohn: 13,17,23,32,34 og 35).An extremely scarce series of the first Danish work on National Costumes, only known in a few copies.Bibl. Danica II: 1080 (incomplete) - Colas: 2557 (only 56 plates). - Krohn: 873-944
