Bidspirit auction | 4 Antique Engravings of Writers

4 Antique Engravings of Writers and Poets, 19th cen. - 4 Antique Engravings of Writers and Poets, 19th cen. Size with passé partout: 23 x 19 cm. (9 x 7.4 inches) Size of the Meir (Mayer) Obernik engraving: 21 x 11.5 cm. (8.2 x 4.5 inches) The others a bit less or more. Condition: some stains Meir (Mayer) Obernik (Hebrew: מאיר אברניק; 1764 – 6 November 1805) was a Jewish writer and Biblical commentator of the Biurist movement. Obernik contributed to the Me'assef a great number of fables, and was one of the most active of the Biurists. He translated into German the Books of Joshua and Judges, adding a short commentary (bi'ur), and (with Samuel Detmold [Wikidata]) the Book of Samuel. The translation of the whole Tanakh, with the bi'ur, was edited by Obernik under the title of Minḥah ḥadashah (Vienna, 1792–1806).[1][2] Ulrich von Hutten (* 21. April 1488 auf Burg Steckelberg bei Schlüchtern; † 29. August 1523 auf der Insel Ufenau im Zürichsee) war ein deutscher Renaissance-Humanist, Dichter, Kirchenkritiker und Publizist. Ignaz Vinzenz Franz Castelli (* 6. März 1781 in Wien; † 5. Februar 1862 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Dichter und Dramatiker. Die Reihenfolge seiner Vornamen variiert in der Literatur. Er veröffentlichte auch unter den Pseudonymen Bruder Fatalis, Höhler, [1] Kosmas, Kosmos, Rosenfeld, C. A. Stille.[ Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ ⓘ BISH;[1][2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.[3][4] A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats.[5] American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as ”a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem.”