Lot description
Joachim (Joseph, 1831-1907). A collection of Joachim memorabilia, c. 1868-1909 * Joachim (Joseph, 1831-1907), Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A collection of Joachim memorabilia, Hanover, London and elsewhere, c. 1868-1909, including 3 photographic portraits belonging to Joachim: a cabinet card of the violinist Teresina Tua (1866-1956), inscribed and signed on the reverse, ‘A l'incomparable Maître Souvenir affectueux de sa plus grande admiratrice Teresa Tua, Berlin, 2 Octobre 1882’, and two cartes de visite of Julius Otto Grimm and Ferdinand Hiller; plus 3 other cabinet cards of Brahms’s house, two female opera singers, and presentation of a diploma to Spohr (from a painting); a postcard to Marie Joachim, initialled ‘C.W.’; a roan writing folder, apparently belonging to Joachim, 25.5 x 38 cm, containing used pink blotting paper and compartments for letters, metal clasp; a collection of approx. 70 domestic invoices and receipts from 1867-1868 for Joachim and his wife, various sizes, printed stationery with manuscript entries; a manuscript catalogue of an unidentified library (possibly Joachim's), approx. 114 pages, plus blanks, nineteenth-century half cloth, manuscript paper label to spine ‘Katalog 1898’, narrow folio, and one unused volume of ruled music paper, bookseller's label to upper inside cover ‘Heyls Künstler Magazin’, nineteenth-century quarter cloth, oblong folio, a total of approx. 80 items in all QTY: (approx. 80) NOTE: All the items in this unusual collection of Joachim-related objects were passed down to a former owner by descent. Of note are the large collection of some 70 invoices for Joachim and his wife, all from 1867-1868, which give details of printed music purchases, etc., and provide a detailed snapshot of two years of the violinist's domestic life.