Painting on Cobweb ("Gemalde auf Spinnengewebe"): Being a Full Length Portrait of a Woman in Traditional Tyrolean Costume with a Mountain Backdrop Possums Berta and Elmer Hader and

Berta and Elmer Hader and the Golden Age of American Picture Books

ORIGINAL PEN & INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWING BY WILLIAM PENE DU BOIS (1916-1993) PUBLISHED IN HIS BOOK "OTTO AT SEA" (1936)

which was limited to 25 copies

mount age-tanned and with minor spotting

Originating primarily in regions such as Patna and Benares (Varanasi) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Painting on Cobweb ("Gemalde auf Spinnengewebe"): Being a Full Length Portrait of a Woman in Traditional Tyrolean Costume with a Mountain Backdrop Possums Berta and Elmer Hader and(Cobweb Painting) PAINTING ON COBWEB ("GEMALDE AUF SPINNENGEWEBE"): BEING A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL TYROLEAN COSTUME WITH A MOUNTAIN BACKDROP by Franz Unterberger. Innsbruck, Tyrol: Fr. Unterberger, circa 1870. Hand painted on stretched cobwebs (gossamer); window mounted to 2 1 16" x 3 5 16" in a mount measuring 4 1 8" x 5 1 2"; contained within the original publisher's 16mo 6 11 16" x 5 7 16" brown cloth backed pictorial paper