Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - est. 1860s
- Original artist/Engraver: --- / A.H. Payne
- Publisher: Brain & Payne
of London, 12 Paternoster Row
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Few minor tears at the edges of print
- Dimensions:
8 x 10.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
Ample margins (1.5 to 2 inches) around the image not shown in the
photo. Image dimensions: 4 x 6 inches.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Narrative:
- From the original description:
BADEN, generally called Baden-Baden, to distinguish it
from other towns of the same name in Austria and Switzerland, is situated
on the Os, in a beautiful and romantic valley, at the foot of the Black
Forest, two leagues from the Rhine, and at an equal distance from Rastadt.
Its name, corresponding to that of Bath in England indicates the source
to which it is indebted for its prosperity. Its mineral waters were
known to the Romans, and were named by them Aurelia Aquensis, in honour
of the emperor Aurelius Alexander Severus. The city was for a period
of six hundred years the capital of the Margraves of Baden. The number
of inhabitants is four thousand six hundred, but during the summer
season, from the influx of visitors, it amounts to nearly twenty thousand.
- The castle contains several subterranean vaults, which, according to tradition,
were used by the secret tribunals of the middle ages, (the Fehm,) and were
most probably originally constructed by the Romans. The Museum contains
remains of Roman antiquities, that have been found here. In the collegiate
or parish-church are the tombs of the Margraves of Baden, since the year
1431. The House of Conversation for the guests was originally a Jesuit
cloister. Baden contains twenty-six mineral springs, of which the
principal called Ursprung, or origin, has a temperature of from 96°
to 121° Fahrenheit, and in twenty-four hours emits 7,345,440 cubic
inches of water. The rock from which it issues is still partly faced
with Carrara marble of the time of the Romans. The environs present an
extraordinary variety of manifold and picturesque views.
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