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M-511 Leopold Gast & Brother Lithograph Company
These graphite drawings were the work of the Leopold Gast & Brother Lithograph Company, St. Louis, Missouri in the mid-19th century. Some drawings are signed by the artists that include John Gast (1842-1896), Leopold Gast (1810-1898), Paulus Roetter (1806-1894), and Theodore Anders, however most are unsigned. The company was founded in St. Louis in 1852 by brothers Leopold and August Gast (1819-1891). The pair and their families immigrated from Germany in 1848 and brought with them their lithographic press. They started a successful printing company, originally called Leopold Gast & Brother Lithograph Company, which Leopold ran from 1852 to 1866 when he sold his share to his brother August.
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- Village scene
- Drawing of farm scene with multiple figures engaged in tending gardens and farm animals, pencil on wove paper badly stained, not signed or dated, 3 3/4 inches by 5 3/4 inches
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- Wittenberg
- Drawing of an urban plaza or market square with a central sculpture surrounded by city hall, with "Wittenberg" written below. Pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches
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- Workers
- Drawing of men working in what may be a pig iron processing furnace, pencil on wove paper, unsigned, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches
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- Workers on railroad car
- Drawing of workers on a railroad flatcar, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom center Paulus Roetter and dated lower right 1853, 2 3/16 inches by 5 1/8 inches
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- Workers quarrying
- Drawing of men striking rocks with picks below a cliff with a jagged tree trunk; two men stand on the cliff. Pencil on wove paper, signed lower right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches
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- Youth in Landscape
- Drawing of young person kneeling on a narrow path scooping water from a stream with their hand while a dog drinks from the stream. Above the figure is a rectangle with initials in a stylized font; potentially a bookplate design. Pencil on irregularly shaped wove paper, initialed "L.G." lower left and dated May 1865, 5 inches by 2 1/4 inches
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