Items in Germany

A Woman torn in peices by the Devil. pa. 14.

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: “XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, b [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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Lady of Castle Windeck

“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was [...]

Keywords: poetry, knights, people

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group.

I.—Old Museum, Berlin: Detail of Façade, with Sculpture Group “The Amazon.” Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect. Kiss, Sculptor. panopticum took a photograph of these steps that helps to put them into [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statues, entrances, columns, animals, lions, people, bare feet, nudity, weapons, neoclassical, architecture

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2006-02-06

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The Mummelsee.

A group of water-nymphs bathe in the lake, with the stern figure of the ruler of the lake in the background. At the southern end of the mountain-range which ascends from the Kniebis to the Hornisgründ [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, mountains, water, beards, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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