Item No: frk00661

Title:
Drawing (A Man)

Category:
Drawing

Creators:
Decorator: [Friedrich Krebs (1749-1815)]
Scrivener: [Friedrich Krebs (1749-1815)]

Creation Place:
County: [Dauphin]
State/Province: [Pennsylvania]
Note: Based on design characteristics and artist's location

Creation Date: ca. 1800

Physical Description: Leaf

Dimensions: 20.2 cm x 16.9 cm

Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink

Media Type: Drawings

Language: German

Scripts/Text: Fraktur

Associated Names: Krebs, Friedrich

Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. In the center of the document is a man with white knee-length trousers, boots, a red tailcoat, and hat, possibly a military uniform. The text in Fraktur is to this lower right. The document is framed by a decorative border.

This is the second of a two-part series depciting a quarreling couple.  In an extant complete example by Krebs, the first panel depicts a woman who is directing guests to visit her husband at the stove, then in the second panel he complains that she sends all the fools to him.  See Weiser, "Ach wie ist die Welt so toll!...," p. 75.

Transcription:

Mein Camerad \ an der Subenthür \ der schickt die Nar= \ ren all zu mir

Translation:

My comrade at the door to the room sends all the fools to me.
 

Provenance:
Henry S. Borneman

Bibliography:

"Johann Jacob Friederich Krebs"in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2^nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 460-467.

Frederick S. Weiser, “Ach wie ist die Welt so Toll!  The Mad, Lovable World of Friedrich Krebs,” in Der Reggeboge 22, no. 2 (1988): 49-88.

Weiser Number: 54

Subjects:

• Clothing
• Men
• Soldiers

Source:
Rare Book Department