Posted 15 years ago
papasgirl
(5 items)
The small print says Yautier: Tanzpause
A rest in Dancing.
In small print No. 76
Photograhie Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden
Not exactly sure what is is. Can anyone help?
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Wilhelm Hoffmann, Dresden: Printer: ... Most of his engravings and etchings were published in Paris in limited editions of fifty signed impressions. In the late 19th century (up to 1920's) his engravings were photographed and used in history books. The picture is people doing the tanzpause dance a type of break dance popular in the 18th and 19th century. Photographs of his engravings that were published in school history books (1900 to 1920) were cut from books and sold in antique stores framed as original engravings during the 1970's and some are even fictisously signed Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden. Even today mass copies of his engravings are sold. Your item looks to be a 1906 photo of his engraving of the tanzpause, a rest in dancing, France. I have about 150 engravings that I have collected over the years, I will post four of them to show n tell today. They are collectable.