In the picture, the British lion gobbles up various national currencies in the background while in the foreground a battle takes place between a few generals of the Central Powers and a large army of the Allies, led by generals from Russia, Italy, France, etc., and followed by a horde of soldiers (all dark-complected and mostly dressed in white) as well as dangerous animals such as a gorilla, a leopard, and several serpents. In back of the generals of the Central Powers are such cultural objects as a book and a palette with paints and brushes and such useful objects as a plow and a wheel; the Allies in contrast are stepping on a book labeled "Kultur" as well as on emblems of various nations such as Finland and Poland.
Description:
A photomechanical print of a painting. and Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift of Thomas Lowe Hughes, J.D. 1952.
f. 45v, 46r : Geometric symbols containing luna crests., f. 50r : ""Philosophisch balneum,"" distillation apparatus and furnace., f. 50v : ""Der Faule Heintze,"" a multilevel furnace, and f. 51r : ""Der Philosophische Offen,"" a cylindrical furnace, with chimney.
Description:
3 oversize folding pages with drawings and diagrams inserted after f. 227., On paper, Twelve illustrations., and Written by a single scribe in gothic, Fraktur and roman scripts.
Menschen und Werke im Zeitalter Goethes : Ein Bilderwerk / von Hans Ludwig Oeser
Image Count:
1
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Friends and associates, Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781--Portraits, and Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786--Portraits
Collection Created:
Berlin : P. Franks, Inh.: P. Franke & R. Henssel G.m.b.H., [1923]