Germany,austria & Northern Europe Gallery

Holsten gate at Lubeck, engraved by John Godfrey (1817-89) (colour engraving)

REV326585 Holsten gate at Lubeck, engraved by John Godfrey (1817-89) (colour engraving) by Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich (1808-94) (after); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; (add.info.: la porte Holstein a Luebeck; part of the medieval fortifications; Holstentor;); German, out of copyright

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A Robber Knight exacting Tribute, 1882 (litho)

446528 A Robber Knight exacting Tribute, 1882 (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: scene set in the Swabian Alps in the late 15th and early 16th century; the noblemen of the mountains were brutal and tyrannous rulers in their petty kingdoms; illustration from A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations, from the earliest dates to the present time by Charlotte Mary Yonge, published in New York in 1882); Prismatic Pictures

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Goethe's House in Frankfurt (colour litho)

LSE1125703 Goethe's House in Frankfurt (colour litho) by German School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant.); Photo A© Leonard de Selva; German, out of copyright

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