Runde Strasse in Peking

by After Eduard Hildebrandt

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A charming atmospheric street scene in Peking, from Hildebrandt's illustrated survey of his world travels Reise um die Erde Journey Around the Earth . Born in Gdansk, Hildebrandt was a pupil of the marine painter Wilhelm Kreuse 1803-64 and also studied watercolour painting in the Paris studio of Eugène Isabey for six months. After returning to Berlin in 1843, he met Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1855 , who introduced him to Frederik William IV. The latter

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