Cuttings from the Burckhardt-Wildt Album: Together Again
Submitted by Emerald Lucas on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 1:30pm
In the late eighteenth century, the Swiss dealer Peter Birmann assembled a monumental album of 475 miniatures, which he had removed from illuminated manuscripts. Named after the man to whom he sold the album, Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt (1752–1819), it remained in private hands for nearly two hundred years.