2-755-752 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

German Renaissance ornament in stone and wood, (1898). 'Fig 1: Herma from the tombs of Wurttembergian princes in the choir of the "Stiftskirche" at Stuttgart. Fig 2: Panel on the pillar of a bar in the great hall of the town-house at Nuremberg. Fig 3: Intrado on a door in the "Otto-Heinrichs-Bau" of Heidelberg Castle. Fig 4: Dado at a tomb of the "Schenken" at Limpurg in the choir of the principal church at Gaildorf. Figs 5-10: Wood carved panels and friezes from a hall ceiling in the castle at Jever. Plate 77 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]