Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamdetails

Frontispiece: A bride’s dream

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Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin.

Here there bride rests her head on one arm as she sits on a bench, surrounded by cherubs, on the grass in front of her, whispering in her ear, standing on the tree high above her, and in the air, some playing the violin or trumpet, others in boy/girl pairs (never girl/girl or boy/boy, alas) and behind her the roses are in bloom, all symbols of romantic love.

This engraving does an amazing job of conveying depth through line thickness and density.

The piece, the frontispiece of the book, is signed, i think, Gebr Kroner, X.A., and Scholff, Sc. (Sculpt., i.e., engraved).

romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy

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1800 dots per inch