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Antique Print of Elisabeth Kulmann by Meyer (c.1850)

  • Condition: Fair/good, general age-related toning. Shows some wear/creasing and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
  • Date: c.1850
  • Overall size: 12.5 x 20 cm.
  • Image size: 8 x 10 cm.
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.. Antique Print of Elisabeth Kulmann by Meyer (c.1850)

Description: Antique print titled 'Elisabeth Kulmann'. Portrait of Elisabeth Kulmann, after a bust by Paolo Catozzi. Elisabeth Kulmann was a Russian-born poet and translator who worked in Russian, German and Italian. This print originates from 'Meyers Konversations-Lexikon' published circa 1850. 

Artists and Engravers: Joseph Meyer (May 9, 1796 - June 27, 1856) was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Meyer operated very successfully as a publisher, employing a system of serial subscription to publications, which was new at that time. To this end he founded a company, Bibliographisches Institut, in Gotha in 1826. It published several editions of the Bible, works of classical literature ("Miniatur-Bibliothek der deutschen Classiker", "Groschen-Bibliothek"), atlases, the world in pictures on steel engravings ("Meyers Universum", 1833–61, 17 volumes in 12 languages with 80,000 subscribers all over Europe), and an encyclopaedia.