XII Bilder zu Göthe's Faust and Zwölf Bilder zu Göthe's Faust
Description:
Dedicated to Goethe., Engraved throughout., List of plates on front cover., and On first plate, "gest. von Thaeter in Dresden."
Publisher:
F. Wenner,
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Faust--Illustrations., Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832--Dedications to., Ruscheweyh, Ferdinand, 1785-1845., and Thaeter, Julius Caesar, 1804-1870.
Depicts the town of New Braunfels, Texas, circa 1856. In left foreground is a man on horseback, with rifle on his shoulder, standing near two steer; in the right foreground is a man on horseback talking with a man on foot.
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.