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Dogs performing
SCHENKMAN, Jan.De Kermis Artisten, of de Viervoetige Kunstenmakers voor het Kleine Publiek.      Amsterdam, G. Theod. Bom, (1862). Folio. Contemp. half cloth, with full-page lithographed plate mounted on front cover. With 20 full-page lithographed plates, incl. the title, repeated from front cover, by J.W.A. Hilverdink, all plates with an explanatory verse underneath, and all plates most carefully and beautifully coloured by hand. (20) lvs., versos blank. Rare first edition of a beautiful picture book introducing children to the amusement of the "kermis" or fair without the afterthought of a moral lesson. It shows are all kinds and numbers of performing dogs, dressed up as both male and female characters. Shown are scenes of dogs dressed up as elegant Sunday strollers, as dancers at a country ball, as soldiers marching, as soldiers standing guard in an army camp, etc. It also shows a cute slender dog as a French servant girl going to the market, dogs luxuriously dressed for a big dinner, two dogs dressed up as theatre characters playing the roles of Pierrot and Cassandra, finely dressed dogs giving a serenade, nicely dressed up dogs receiving their cousin from the East, dogs leaving for a journey, with dogs as the horses before the carriage and also as travellers in the carriage, dogs dressed up as acrobats doing all sorts of acts, etc. The fine plates were made by J.W.A. Hilverdink (1809-1864), and as suggested by Landwehr the drawings were probably made from nature, possibly when the famous dog show of Fulgone and Charles van den Bussche performed on an Amsterdam square. Jan Schenkman (1806-1863), an Amsterdam school teacher and humoristic poet, was only asked to provide poems for the plates after they were made. This was a custom often used by the publishers, as the "Bibelebontese Berg" also relates about Schenkman in other cases. From Kruseman at Haarlem, Schenkman received 25 cents per line for such work. Fine copy.- (Recased, with new endpapers, and sl. cut short at the bottom, shaving the text of first and last lvs.; sl. thumbed).
Landwehr, Het IJzersterke Prentenboek, p. 58, and ill. on p. 55; this title not in KLKL, Cat. De Koning, or Coll. Caljé-Van Gulik, etc.; cf. Bibelebontse Berg pp. 617-618; Auction Sales Cat. Van Veen II. June, 25, 1984, no. 404.
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