Cover with title: Im Garten der Aphrodite | 18 Bildgaben | von | Franz von Bayros | {vignette} | Privatdruck || in a frame; table of contents and limitation to verso; 18 plates with the drawings of Bayros in collotype reproduction, each mounted on cardboard and protected with the remnants of tissue guards, some lacking. Of the publisher’s folder, only the front board with an oval title label is present. Some images signed “Choisy le Conin” – von Bayros’s pseudonym. Two prints are missing: (1) Das Füßchen and (2) Die Liebesschaukel, the other 16 prints present. The vignette on the cover is a photomechanical reproduction.
Edition: limited to 350 copies of which this is № 253.
According to Christie’s: a collotype reprint, about twenty years after their first publication.
English equivalent: The Garden of Aphrodite. Portfolio with 18 photogravures.
Catalogue raisonné: The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros (1968): pp. 177-1877; Bayros Zeichningen (1987): pp. 143-152.
Additional Information
| Collection | European prints and drawings |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Pictorial album |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Country | Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Erotica , Pictorial album , Sex |
| Media/Technique | Collotype , Photogravure , Photomechanical , Wove paper |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1920 |
| Edition | Limited , Re-print |
| Catalogue raisonne | Bayros Zeichnungen (1987) , The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros (1968) |
| Acquisition year | 2021 |
