Lot 228: Norbert Bittner (Vienna 1786-1851) A stage design with the entrance gate of a castle

Norbert Bittner (Vienna 1786-1851)
A stage design with the entrance gate of a castle pen and brown ink, heightened with white on calque paper prepared with brown wash42.1 x 55.2cm (16 9/16 x 21 3/4in).together with a group of unframed architectural drawings and prints by various hands, all unframed (quantity)

Provenance: Michael Mayr, Vienna (1796-1870), and thence by descent toMariane Fajt, Eisenstadt, Austria, 1939Janos Schloz, New YorkWith Seiferheld Gallery, New YorkYvonne ffrench, London (1901-1989)Sven Gahlin, London, acquired in 2001ExhibitedXVIII and XIX Stage Designs from the Mayr-Fajt Collection, New York, Seiferheld Gallery, April 1962, Michigan, University of Michigan, Summer 1962, and Princeton, Princeton University, October 1962, cat. no. 6LiteratureM. Mayr and J. Scholz, XVIII and XIX Stage Designs from the Mayr-Fajt Collection, New York, 1962, cat. no. 6The present work can be dated to circa 1820.