Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brandis - The Hanoverian Garrison leaving Menin (Copy of an aquatint engraving by Johann Gerhard Huck) - image-1 Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brandis - The Hanoverian Garrison leaving Menin (Copy of an aquatint engraving by Johann Gerhard Huck) - image-2 Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brandis - The Hanoverian Garrison leaving Menin (Copy of an aquatint engraving by Johann Gerhard Huck) - image-3

Lot 183 D α

Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brandis - The Hanoverian Garrison leaving Menin (Copy of an aquatint engraving by Johann Gerhard Huck)

Auction 1193 - overview Berlin
07.05.2022, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale & Berlin Salon
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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Wilhelm Ferdinand von Brandis

The Hanoverian Garrison leaving Menin
(Copy of an aquatint engraving by Johann Gerhard Huck)

Black and white ink on paper. 42 x 62 cm.
Framed under glass with the original inscribed back panel.
Inscribed and dated lower right: WF von Brandis 1831.

Inscribed on the reverse by the artist's brother August Th. von Brandis (1836 Stade - 1887 Wiebaden) in 1886:
"Der Ausfall von Menin dem 30. April 1794. - Der General-Mayor von Hammerstein schlägt sich mit der Besatzung durch. - Der damalige ... Artillerie Capitain Scharnhorst, der später berühmt gewordene General, hat den rühmlichsten Antheil genommen"
"Von meinem Bruder Ferdinand copiert 1831, er war 15 Jahre alt!
29/12/1886 Th... von Brandis".