Pater noster Jos. Fuhrich invenit

In 8 (cm 15 x 22) con 9 tavole incise all'acquaforte compresa quella che funge da frontespizio. Fioriture sparse alle carte. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena con tassello al dorso. Edizione tedesca non datata, ma dello stesso anno di quella francese ascrivibile al 1840, di quest'opera con tavole illustrate da Joseph Fuhrich (edizione originale pubblicata a Praga nel 1826 in tedesco con il titolo di "Das Vater unser"). Joseph Fuhrich "a German historical painter, was born in 1800, at Kragau, in Bohemia. He received his artistic education, at Prague, Vienna, and Rome, and now resides at Vienna. His line of art was influenced at Rome by his connection with the German painters who there founded the so-called 'romantic' school. With Schnorr, Veit, Koch, and Overbeck, he took part in the decoration of the Villa Massini, for which he produced the scenes from Tasso. Subsequently, without abandoning himself to a one-sided predilection for the pretistic medieval manner, he has formed for himself a style of great purity, and has executed numerous works of great value, partly in oil, and partly engraved on copper. Of these, the most important are the 'History of St. Genoveva' and the noble 'Triumph of Christ' in a series of plates. Of his earlier works we notice his 'Pater-Noster' and 'Scenes from Bohemian History" Fuhrich ranks among the foremost of living historical painters. His compositions often display a noble energy and great power of expression, although his sober and even coloring is not pleasing to the great mass" (The men of the Time or Sketches of Living Notables, 1852, p. 221).