Photo © Dave Anderson
Once in a while at DailyWright we get something other than a photograph of a building---but always something the Andersons found at a building site.
This is a bit of a mystery: images seemingly drawn from a published version of the Wasmuth Portfolio (I have the Dover version of 1983) and displayed against a background of---the sky ?
Are these two pieces of paper stuck to a window that somehow avoids a view of any landscape or buildings ? A skylight, maybe ?
Another mystery is the source of the drawings. These are definitely the birds-eye view and second floor plan, complete with German titling, that appear at the top of Wasmuth Plate XXVIII---but the drawing here has a bit of lettering (illegible in the photo) at the right end of the view drawing, which lettering does not appear on the drawing reproduced in Dover (see below). And, the surprisingly messy texture added to the roof of the view drawing as seen in Wasmuth is not present on the yellow drawings here. So, something added and something taken away, comparing one with the other.
The mystery is either solved or compounded when we find the drawing as part of the Francis Little set at Artstor: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/296 ... 7724035304
What is the name Tafel doing on this drawing ? Where and when was this version of the drawing (with a much better roof texture applied throughout, most likely the true original state of the illustration) published ? And why would the Dover version contain an inferior roof texture ?
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