Description Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper. Sheet size: 34 x 42.8 cm (13.39 x 16.85 inch). Image size: 29.5 x 37.2 cm. (11.61 x 14.65 inch). Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. 3 Small tears in right margin, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. LESSING PORTRAIT KRAUSFE 19TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING GERMAN LITERATURE ENLIGHTENMENT LEIPZIG | PCO-E22-42 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Printed by Th. Zehl in Leipzig, ca. 1840. Biography engraver: Alfred Krausse (1829-1894) was a German copperplate engraver active from1849 till 1894 in Leipzig.
