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Draewing, Peter Paul.

[Occult Ex Libris] Bookplate for Professor Dr. H. Matthes by Peter Paul Draewing.

Peter Paul Draewing, 1876-1940, as a German artist and teacher was mostly recognized for his French Impressionist style landscape paintings. Bookplate depicts an alchemist or a wizard with a long white beard formulating a potion or some chemical concoction in a laboratory with alchemical symbols, hourglass, skull, book, mortar and pestle decorated with grapes, poppies, wolfbane and an owl at the top. Other copies known printed in brown or blue on yellow paper. Ephemera. Near Fine. Unmounted bookplate, printed in black ink on cream colored paper. 9x14cm. Initials P.P.D lower right. Item #10910

Price: $100.00