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A NORTH BOHEMIAN (HARRACH) DATED CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MEDALLION ENGRAVED BY DOMINIK BIEMANN
Lot 118

A NORTH BOHEMIAN (HARRACH) DATED CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MEDALLION ENGRAVED BY DOMINIK BIEMANN

1833, PERHAPS ENGRAVED IN FRANZENSBAD, ENGRAVED DATE TO EDGE OF MEDALLION, PORTRAIT SIGNED D. BIMANN.

Closed16 April 2014

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A NORTH BOHEMIAN (HARRACH) DATED CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MEDALLION ENGRAVED BY DOMINIK BIEMANN
1833, PERHAPS ENGRAVED IN FRANZENSBAD, ENGRAVED DATE TO EDGE OF MEDALLION, PORTRAIT SIGNED D. BIMANN.
Engraved with a half-length portrait of a gentleman to the right, signed D. BIMANN. below, within triple step-cut rim
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam.

The Collection of Dr. H. Schiftan, Breslau.
Frau Beck; sale Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1964, lot 63.

Specialist note

Dominik Biemann's fame rests on his skill as an exceptional portrait engraver, receiving many medals for his work at the Harrachov Glass Works. Amongst his many subjects are Herzog Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Napoleon, Lord Byron and William Blake. He also engraved a number of fashionably dressed middle-class subjects, although the present sitter remains unidentified.