These scans were kindly sent to me by Alexey Dombrovsky. Since German copyright, sa I understand it, is life plus 90 years for identified works, some of these images may in fact be under copyright; I have tried to identify the artists from their scignatures where I can. Works by Adolf Schill (1848 – 1911) are now out of copyright, as are works by Franz Xavier Simm (1853 – 1918), and unidentfied works are probably out of copyright.
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Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature
A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). [more...] |
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Titlepage from Works of Goethe
Goethe’s Works, Illustrated by prime German artists; Edited by H. Dünker; First Volume. Stuttgart & Leipzig, [printed by] Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, formerly Ed. Hallberger. [more...]
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Decorative initial letter O with cherubs
Two naked children—cherubs, or putti—are playing inside an initial letter “O” in the German Fraktur style. One boy uses a rope to pull on a decorative vertical part of the letter [...] [more...] |
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Decorative initial letter B
An almost-naked young mang sits on a rock and plays a recorder or pipe in a forest; his dog sits next to him, and in the background a young woman approaches. There [...] [more...] |
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Bucolic scene from a glade in a forest.
A young man, topless and bare-legged, sits on a rock in a forest and dangles his feet as he plays a pipe or recorder. His dog is by his side. In the [...] [more...] |
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Typographic ornament or flower from page 2.
A piece of 19th century clipart? A small decorative piece from the end of a poem, a twirly flourish. |
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Decorative initial letter E
A bee approaches a bunch of flowers tied with a ribbon in this large decorative capital “E” The image appears to be unsigned |
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Decorative page element/ornament
A piece of 19th century clipart? A small decorative piece from the end of a poem. |
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Decorative Initial letter E
A German Fraktur letter “E” used as an inital drop cap, with a winged putti or cherub holding a ribbon tied to a branch over a Janus, ot two-faced head. [more...] |
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