1790c. Pfeffingen, Fr. Rosenberg, grey toned aquatint, Basel, Switzerland

Friedrich Rosenberg 1758-1833

Ruine de Pfeffingen

Fine aquatint on contemporary wash mount

Aquatint dimensions: 13.4 x 17.7 cm. Mount: 25.7 x 31 cm

Reference: Nagler Künstlerlexikon 1835-1852. , S. XIII, 395; Nagler Monogrammisten 1858-1879. , S. II, 861

Fine and rare depiction of the ruins of Pfeffingen castle in the municipality of Pfeffingen in the canton of Basel-Land, Switzerland. During the Thirty Years′ War in 1637 the castle was occupied by Swedish troops under Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and, eleven years later, was left (in very poor condition) to the bishop. Around 1750 the castle was finally abandoned by the Blarer family of Wartensee, who moved to Aesch Castle.

Friedrich Rosenberg was a landscape painter and etcher. born Danzig, in 1782 via Hamburg to Switzerland and northern Italy; 1789 to Paris; 1793 to Holland; from c.1794 drawing master in Hamburg, later in Altona.