Wien, Anton Hartinger & Sohn, 1869. Very large, oblong folded, chromolithographed sheet (58.7 x 71.3 cm) in printed pocket (20.5 x 12 cm).

A very large, instructive and decorative plate - with ample descriptive text - of a 19th-century European kitchen, with cooks and maids (being the central illustration) and kitchen utensils, including various types of cutlery. The illustrator is the Austrian romanticist painter Anton Hartinger (1806-1890), who also published this work. In 1820 Hartinger studied at the Wiener Akademie der bildenden Künste bei Ignaz Strenzel and Sebastian Wegmayr. There he specialized in flower and fruit painting. In 1836 he became editor of the flower and fruit school of the Viennese Academy, from 1843 to 1851 he was a member of the academy. In 1825 he received the Gundel-Price for flower-painting, and in 1829 the Füger-Price. In 1859 he founded a lithography-printing company, which published botanical works and works on agriculture and forestry. He received the title of Royal Court Chromolithographer. Short, hardly noticeable tear in the text, otherwise a very good, absolutely clean, unmarked copy. Very rare.