circa 1850 Antique Decorated Frame for 6" x 8" Picture , Engraving of Frankfurt

Description

Antique Framed Engraving
Cathedral & Old Town At Frankfurt
( Der Dom & Die Altstadt Zu Frankfurt )
Germany
Drawn by Louis Lange
Engraved by Carl Rauch
Carl Rauch ( Karl Rauch ) born 1804, was a German printmaker , a painter , and draughtsman.
He specialized in architectural subjects and worked in Darmstadt .
Original, antique engraving.
Printed circa 1840.
Antique Painted Picture Frame
.
This frame is
old
; circa mid 1800's, around 1850.
Wood and composition.
Incised
decoration on the upper surface.
Painted
faux bois
( wood grain ) on the upper and outside surfaces.
Original wood panel backing, with original antique hand-made
flat-sided
nails.
Frame dimensions
:
Overall frame size, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4"
Picture size which fits well, 6" x 8"
Viewing area ( from the front ), 5 5/8" x 7 5/8"
Under glass.
Old eye-hooks still in place.
There is a scratch in the glass.
The engraving is stained.
The antique picture frame has surface wear, dings.
( see the photos )
The engraving is about 180 years old, and this picture frame is almost as old.
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Additional Information
:
Frankfurt Cathedral
( German : Frankfurter Dom ), officially Imperial Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew ( German : Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomaus ) is a Roman Catholic Gothic church located in the centre of Frankfurt am Main , Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
It is the largest religious building in the city and a former collegiate church. Despite its common English name, it has never been a true cathedral (episcopal see), but is called the Kaiserdom (an " imperial great church " or imperial cathedral ) or simply the Dom due to its importance as former election and coronation church of the Holy Roman Empire.
As one of the major buildings of the Empire's history, it was a symbol of national unity, especially in the 19th century.
In 1867, St. Bartholomew's was destroyed by a fire and rebuilt.
( this engraving shows the original church, before the fire of 1867 and before the reconstruction after World War II ).
Previous to a night-time air raid in May 1944 , Frankfurt was home to Germany’s largest timberframe
old town
; the most beautiful examples of Gothic styled , half-timbered architecture in the entire country. Germany’s largest medieval old town was once also the home of famous poets , intellectuals and composers , such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Arthur Schopenhauer , Clemens Brentano , Ludwig Borne and Georg Philipp Telemann, just to name a few.
This
antique engraving
shows Frankfurt's
old town
as it was around 1840, some 100 years before its destruction in World War Two.