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Wiener Schmiedewerk des XVII. Und XVIII. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Auserlesener Eisenarbeiten Des Barok und Rococco Stils, Reproducirt Auf 60 in Lichtdruck Ausgeführten Tafeln, Mit Fachlichen Erläuterungen

1883

Medium/Technique Illustrated book
Dimensions Overall: 34.8 x 28 x 2.6 cm (13 11/16 x 11 x 1 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.70
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Description(Dresden: Gilbers'sche Königl. Hof-Verlagsbuchhandlung für Architektur und Kunstgewerbe; Bleyl & Kaemmerer, 1883)
ProvenanceNathaniel von Rothschild (b. 1836 - d. 1905), Vienna [see note 1]; by descent to his nephew, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 2]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindliche Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), p. 454, no. 137.

[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of the book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.