Heenes Volker. Count Franz of Erbach. Die Vasen der Sammlung des Grafen Franz I. von Erbach zu Erbach

Bodenheim: Syndicat, 1998. — 136 p.A catalogue of the antique vases at Erbach castle and a description how count Franz von Erbach became a passionated collector of antiquities and how he designed with help of his painter Johann Wilhelm Wendt his rooms in the baroque wing of the castle for his collection of antiquities (vases, portaits, statues etc). His collection is still on display there, it is one the oldest collections of antiquities in Germany. After his loss of sovereignty he took all his time in the completion and order of his collection. He completed four handwritten catalogues about his antiquities and his excavations at the Limes in the Odenwald and the plantation of the park Eulbach, planned by Friedrich Ludwig Sckell. These catalogues give us a good idea of the intention, knowledge and the preferences of "dilettanti" at the end of the 18th century.