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Rare birds-eye view of the Ohio State Fair Grounds in Cleveland, Ohio, engraved by Klauprech & Menzel's LIth in CIncinnati, Ohio.
This lively view shows the fairgrounds in the foreground, with Lake Erie in the background. The halls and tents are shown in the foreground, with the main driving ring, smaller horse ring and cattle ring in the rear. Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900 attributes this view to Andrew Wagner, an artist, engraver and lithographer, born in Saxony (Gemany) circa 1824, who was active in Cincinnati from 1853 to about 1875. Artists in Ohio, identifies the engraver of the view as Henry H. Shipley and notes that Wagner was a parter of Adolphus Menzel, who is listed as the printer of this map.
The view is very rare. OCLC notes an 1854 edition printed by Klauprech & Menzel in the collections of the American Antiquarian Association and Universitaet Goettingen, but no record of this 1856 edition.
Emil Klauprecht is credited with publication of the first lithograph in Cincinnati.
The firm of Klauprecht & Menzel opened a shop on the south side of Fifth Street, west of Walnut in about 1836. As noted by Merrill:
The earliest lithographic firm in Cincinnati was the partnership of Klauprecht and Menzel, established some time prior to 1840. Emil Klauprecht (1815 - 1896) was a journalist and writer while Adolphus Menzel (circa 1812-1874) was a skilled lithographer. The firm produced many chromolithographic views of Cincinnati and other Ohio towns. In addition it published illustrated German-language periodicals for which Klauprecht was the editor and Menzel was in charge of the illustrations.
The lithographer Charles Menzel, who was active in Cincinnati in the 1840s, was presumably related in some way to Adolphus Menzel. Klauprecht and Menzel employed persons named Gustavus A. Menzel and Herman G. Menzel, and by 1856 the name of the firm had been changed to G. H. Menzel and Company. The firm disappeared during or just after the Civil War.
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