Rheims Cathedral 1910s Re-Proof Etching by Emil Jacobi, after J. Alphege Brewer original etching. Jacobi was born in 1853 in Germany, the son of Carl Heinrich Jacobi, a surveyor for the Royal Westphalian Railway who later became a prize-winning photographer. When Emil was in his early twenties, he ran a printing facility in Golegã, Portugal, which his father co-owned with the aristocrat and photography enthusiast Carlos Relvas. Then his father started the Berlin Phototype Institute, a new company specializing in the application of photography for the reproduction of oil paintings. ” “Phototype was one of the terms used for the photo-gelatine process, examples of which Emil’s father had sent to the 1976 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia. When the well-known Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst negotiated U. Rights to Jacobi’s phototype process, Emil emigrated in 1878 to help set up Gutekunst’s printing facility. A year and a half later he was granted U. Patent 225,389 for an improvement in the Process of Producing Phototype Plates, which he assigned to Gutekunst, whose printing operation he ran for almost two decades. Census of 1880 and on his naturalization card in 1900, Jacobi was listed as a photographer. In the 1900 census he was living in Brooklyn (where he worked for the Albertype Company) and was identified as “Supt, Photo type” with “pictures” written in above. In the 1910 census, he had moved to Elizabeth City, New Jersey, and was listed as Superintendent, Art Co. (the Campbell Art Company, according to the 1915 Elizabeth city directory). At some point, Jacobi advertised an Exhibition of Jacobi Re-proofs, identifying himself as the Creator of the Re-proof. ” At a “nominal price, ” “all who appreciate the Art of Etching could select from his collection of the finest 20th-century masters. These included Axel Herman Haig, Hedley Fitton, Ferdinand Jean Luigini, Maurice Bompard, Fritz Krostewitz, Gaston de Latenay, Andrew F. Simon, George Senseney, Frits Thaulow, Fernand Le Goût-Gérard, Edgar L. Pattison, Charles Bartlett, Bruno Bielefeld, Herbert Thomas Dicksee, Anders Zorn, Paul Emile Lecomte, Edward Sharland, Mortimer Menpes, Louis Icart, and Vaughan Trowbridge among others (including Brewer). After the war, these carried a label describing the war as “late” rather than present. Y, ” “Buckingham Print, and the Edward Gross Co. ” The “Taber-Prang Art Co. A year after Jacobi died, The Argus of Melbourne, Australia, announced an exhibition that included his “reproofs” of works by de Latenay, Haig, Fitton, and others. Most interestingly, these were combined with a selection of original etchings by J. Alphege Brewer from the years of the warthe West Front of the Rheims Cathedral, the Cloth Hall in Ypres, and buildings in Verdun, Antwerp, Louvain, Bruges, and elsewhere. This suggests an American supplier for the exhibition associated with both Jacobi and Brewerpossibly Samuel Schwartz’s Sons & Co. Which offered “High-Grade Art Reproductions” at their Fifth Avenue gallery. After Jacobi’s re-proofs of Brewer’s 1914 views of the exterior and interior of Rheims Cathedral had been published, Schwartz’s began registering U. Copyrights in Brewer’s name for many original etchings printed in 1915 and 1916, including most of those mentioned in the news item. Good antique condition, light wear and distressing, see pictures. 21.5 x 14.75 x 0.75 / Sans – 19.5 x 12.5 (Height x Width x Depth). The sooner you pay, the sooner you get your item. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We do are very best to package and secure all our items so they make safe trips to their new homes. We strive to get your items delivered in the most safe and cost effective manner. Add a map to your own listings. The item “Antique 1910s Jacobi Rheims Cathedral Etching Re-Proof After J. A. Brewer 22″ is in sale since Friday, May 8, 2020. 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- Artist: Emil Jacobi
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Medium: Etching
- Features: Framed
- Subject: Religious
- Originality: Original