DeutschThe Recollection
of a Brilliant Night
with Richard Wagner in Bayreuth
Lohengrin’s Departure. On the embankment numerous friends and woman bid farewell to Lohengrin boarding a boat decorated with a swan. Toned wood engraving after Albert Baur (Aix-la-Chapelle 1835 – Dusseldorf 1906) for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875/76.) 20.5 x 23.7 cm.
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Siegfried’s Corpse is shipped across the Rhine. In the stern of the boat Gunther, Giselher, and Hagen. Toned wood engraving after Albert Baur (Aix-la-Chapelle 1835 – Dusseldorf 1906) for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875/76.) 17.7 x 24 cm.
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Founder of the First Mastersinger School
Funeral of Frauenlob. The coffin of minnesinger Count Heinrich von Meissen, called Heinrich Frauenlob, carried by virgins. Wood engraving for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-76.) 14.2 x 18.7 cm.
Impression for the contempory Dutch edition. – Continuous text on both sides.
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“ Subject: Thanks!
Thanks for your kind reply. I wanted to comment that your thoughts on freedom (the quote that you had on the end of your message to me) are exactly the same as my beliefs.
I write, however, because I was surprised to get it from Europe … Although an American, almost all my early family were Huguenots … In fact, my relative, Jan C. is noted as the earliest C. to have arrived in N. America (in 1636, I think) … ”
(Mrs. C. F., November 14, 2003)