Kilian, Georg Christoph Cycle of four mezzotint sheets, with personifications of the 4 seasons and the 12 signs of the zodiac. Ver. the spring. - Aestas. The Summer. - Autumnus. Autumn. - Hyems. The Winter. Signed and titled in the plates and signed "Ge. Christoph Kilian excudit. A V." Circa 1750. on thin laid paper. Sheet dimensions approx. 33.5 x 43.5 cm. Circa 1750. Splendid, large-format mezzotint series with velvety soft plate colours. - Very rare series, otherwise not traceable for us. - The folios with the central depiction of a female (spring, summer), childlike (autumn) and male (winter) allegorical figure surrounded by elves, putti or bacchae, all in the midst of seasonal gifts (flowers, grain, grapes). At their feet are also allegorical depictions of the three signs of the zodiac associated with the respective season with symbols. - The works are labelled in the plates as works by the Augsburg engraver and art publisher Georg Christoph Kilian (1709-81). - The sheets "Autumnus. Autumn" and "Hyems. Der Winter" have been trimmed close to the margins, the sheet "Autumnus" later mounted on paper in spots. The sheets slightly stained in places in the margins and with remnants of former dotted mounting. Al smoothed. - Very rare. Cycle of four mezzotint leaves, with personifications of the 4 seasons and the 12 signs of the zodiac. Ver. the spring. - Aestas. The Summer. - Autumnus. The autumn. - Hyems. The Winter. Signed and titled in the plates and signed "Ge. Christoph Kilian excudit. A V." Circa 1750. on thin laid paper. Sheet dimensions approx. 33.5 x 43.5 cm. Circa 1750 Splendid, large-format mezzotint series with velvety soft plate colours. - Very rare series, otherwise not known to us. - The folios with the central depiction of a female (spring, summer), childlike (autumn) and male (winter) allegorical figure surrounded by elves, putti or bacchae, all surrounded by seasonal gifts (flowers, grain, grapes). At their feet are also allegorical depictions of the three signs of the zodiac associated with the respective season with symbols. - The works are labelled in the plates as works by the Augsburg engraver and art publisher Georg Christoph Kilian (1709-81). - The sheets 'Autumnus. Autumn' and 'Hyems. Der Winter' have been trimmed close to the margins, the sheet 'Autumnus" later mounted on paper in spots. The sheets slightly stained in places in the margins and with remnants of former dotted mounting. . Smoothed. - Very rare.