print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1922,0530.6
- Title
- Series: Zweihundert Illustrationen zu den Werken Friedrichs des Grossen
- Description
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Night, personified as a woman with arms outstretched, watching as the Goddess of War leads a Prussian Grenadier between two sleeping Austrian soldiers. 1846-1857
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1846-1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 92 millimetres
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Width: 123 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bock interprets the subject matter as alluding to the nightly strategical change of position by Friedrich's army near Liegnitz. Four bound volumes of 'Illustrationen zu Werken Friedrichs des Grossen' are kept at 160.c.11-14.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Illustrations to the works of Frederick the Great
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0530.6