Nestroy (Johann, playwright)

one captioned ‘Tyrannsky absolutsky regiersky volcksky despotsky‘, the other captioned ‘s’Mädl kommt zum Handkuss _ das is a Freud für die Ältern‘, depicting scenes and characters from this satire of the 1848 Revolution by the popular dramatist and writer of musical farces, Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (1801-1862), these plates were issued as supplements to ‘Wiener allgemeinen Theaterzeitung‘, possibly by Andreas Geiger and Johann Christian Schoeller who regularly produced such plates to illustrate this popular theatrical periodical,

original hand-coloured engravings, each c.130 x 155 mm. (5 1/8 x 6 1/8 in) sight size, presented in matching deep red and gilt verre eglomisé mounts and frames,