Memory album Christoph Fischer - Gedenk und Stamm-Buch, worinnen gute Freunde und Gönner mich, Christoph Fischer, von Schaffhausen, mit ihren beliebigen inscriptionen, sinnreichen Anbildungen, curiosen Gemählden und andern denkwürdigen Sprüchen be-ehren wollen. Angefangen den 18ten Iulij 1743.
This leather-bound album contains about 35 dedications and drawings
by people with whom the coppersmith and wine merchant Christoph
Fischer (1691-1770) from Schaffhausen was in touch during his
lifetime. Based on the entries in Latin, German, French and
English, it is possible to reconstruct two trips that Fisher took
to London, during which most of the dedications occurred: 1747-1750
via Geneva, Lyon, Paris to London and 1758 via Strasbourg,
Frankfurt, Amsterdam to London. Several entries are by members of
the Schalch family of Schaffhausen, who were relatives of Fischer;
among these is an undated watercolor by the artist Johann Jakob
Schalch (1723-1789) (p. 122), who lived in London and Den Haag from
1754-1773. After Fischer’s death, the album was continued:
entries from 1773 (p. 65) and 1820 (p. 215). Several pages of
parchment (pp. 1-2, 19-20, 47-48, 115-116, 181-182) are bound into
the paper manuscript, and several pages of paper were added later
(pp. 39a-b, 55a-b, 147a-b) or were covered with pasted-on
illustrations (p. 43, p. 125, p. 127). The entries are not in
chronological order and alternate with numerous blank pages.
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