Wie des Försters Eltern Brautleute wurden. Ca. 1860.
Pencil drawing, with slight wash in places.
Cf. Hoff/Budde 2763. Lower right monogrammed. On wove paper. 9.6 x 8 cm (3.7 x 3.1 in), the full sheet.
Verso with suggested figure sketch.
This drawing served as model for the woodcut illustration of the same name released in : Die Spinnstube. Ein Volksbuch für das Jahr 1860. Published by W. O. Horn, 15th year, Frankfurt am Main, J. D. Sauerländer Verlag, with 50 woodcuts in the text. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Lempertz, Cologne, auction 21st May 1992, lot 324 (with black and white illu.).
Galerie Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from aforementioned in 1992).

LITERATURE: Cf. Das Ludwig Richter Album, Sämtliche Holzschnitte. Herrsching (no date), vol. 2, p. 1570 (for the woodcut).