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A fine quality print from a
series of engravings designed to illustrate, by pictorial groups,
the Character and Costume of All Nations. FROM THE PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT: The Work is designed to illustrate by a Series of Pictorial Groups, accompanied by Original Tales, the Character and Costumes of all Nations. The Engravings are of a larger size than usual in similar works, thereby allowing the means of giving a just expression to the designs of the Artist, and such care has been bestowed upon the execution, as entitles them to be classed among the most successful productions of the burin. The proprietor trusts his endeavors to combine the pleasures derivable from the efforts of the Pencil and the Pen have been successful, having spared neither pains nor expense to procure the assistance of the most skillful Artists and accomplished Writers of the day. The modern inventions in the Art have enabled him to offer at a moderate cost a work of such merit, as was formerly within the reach of the affluent only. Print Specifics:
IN the country of the Tyrol—the beautiful and heroic Tyrol—and in the immediate neighbourhood of the town of Schwatz, commences a chain of lofty but unequal mountains, stretching far and away as the eye can reach, affording abundant variety to the lover of wild and picturesque scenery, suggesting to the imagination innumerable tales, and recalling to the memory a store of rare and antique legends. Fritz Haspinger, known throughout his mountain district by the soubriquet of the " Dreamer," had amply profited by such natural advantages; while his wife, Claudine, a handsome, industrious woman, busied with the real occurrences, the real cares, and the real anxieties of life, thought that the wild fancies of her husband rendered him little better than— a fool ! Fritz was the proprietor of a house of entertainment, within a mile of the pretty mountain hamlet of Stains. He had a farm, too, in the valley, upon which stood an old chateau, which he allowed to crumble to pieces, rather than Sliffer it to pass out of his own hands, because one of his dreams imparted information, that the building covered the entrance to a silver mine : this mine was one of the hundred things by which he expected to make his fortune. Fritz, though a superstitious and simple-minded, was a brave and a patriotic man. He was very proud of his country, proud of his name; and delighted in tracing his relationship to Joseph Haspinger, the monk of Clausen, the companion in heroism of Speckbacher and Hofer. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy!
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