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Mozart, Constanze (née Weber, widow of the composer) and Franz Xaver Wolfgang ('Wolfgang Amadeus', son of W.A. Mozart)
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Two visiting cards
- paper and ink
CONSTANZE MOZART: 4.4 x 6.5cm, engraved ("Constanza Etats Raethin von Nissen gewesene Wittwe Mozart"), pencil inscription to verso in an unidentified hand ("1837 zu Salzburg an M. et Mad [?] Bahlmann [?]"), apparently Salzburg, 1837, light vertical crease, dust-staining to margins of recto, and spotting to verso
FRANZ XAVER WOLFGANG MOZART: 3.4 x 6.2cm, engraved ("W: A: Mozart"), apparently laid down on card, pencil inscription in an unidentified hand to recto ("untere bräunerstrasse N:o 1128 im 3.t Stock"), and, in ink, to verso ("Salzmann [?] Landstrasse..."), with a contemporary black-edged envelope, 4.3 x 10.6cm, inscribed in pencil in an unidentified hand ("Karte v. Mozart J.r für H. et Fr. Bahlmann [?]... 1844 abgegeben"), and a later envelope bearing a pencil translation in an unidentified hand of much of the text contained on the visiting cards, no place, [apparently 1844], light dust-staining to recto and spotting to verso
very rare. We have traced only one other such visiting card of Constanze's at auction during the last two decades (sale in these rooms of 28 May 1993, lot 124). The present example dates apparently from Constanze's final period in Salzburg, between the death of her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen in 1828 and her own in 1842, at the age of eighty. In the case of Mozart's younger son, we have traced no record of a visiting card at auction in the last twenty-five years. This card appears to date from the year of his death, 1844.
FRANZ XAVER WOLFGANG MOZART: 3.4 x 6.2cm, engraved ("W: A: Mozart"), apparently laid down on card, pencil inscription in an unidentified hand to recto ("untere bräunerstrasse N:o 1128 im 3.t Stock"), and, in ink, to verso ("Salzmann [?] Landstrasse..."), with a contemporary black-edged envelope, 4.3 x 10.6cm, inscribed in pencil in an unidentified hand ("Karte v. Mozart J.r für H. et Fr. Bahlmann [?]... 1844 abgegeben"), and a later envelope bearing a pencil translation in an unidentified hand of much of the text contained on the visiting cards, no place, [apparently 1844], light dust-staining to recto and spotting to verso
very rare. We have traced only one other such visiting card of Constanze's at auction during the last two decades (sale in these rooms of 28 May 1993, lot 124). The present example dates apparently from Constanze's final period in Salzburg, between the death of her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen in 1828 and her own in 1842, at the age of eighty. In the case of Mozart's younger son, we have traced no record of a visiting card at auction in the last twenty-five years. This card appears to date from the year of his death, 1844.
Catalogue Note
very rare. We have traced only one other such visiting card of Constanze's at auction during the last two decades (sale in these rooms of 28 May 1993, lot 124). The present example dates apparently from Constanze's final period in Salzburg, after the death of her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen in 1828. In the case of Mozart's younger son, we have traced no record of a visiting card at auction in the last twenty-five years. This card appears to date from the year of his death, 1844.