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[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883; scene at funeral; crowd around hearse] – Vintage Print

[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883; scene at funeral; crowd around hearse] — historic print
[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883; scene at funeral; crowd around hearse]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883; scene at funeral; crowd around hearse]

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Richard Wagner died in Venice on February 13, 1883, and this image records the procession that followed his death, with a crowd gathered around a hearse. Wagner, the German composer behind the Ring cycle and Parsifal, had spent his last years at the Palazzo Vendramin, and his body was carried through the city before the journey north to Bayreuth, where he was buried at his home, Wahnfried. Funeral scenes like this one were a common way for nineteenth-century newspapers and illustrators to mark the death of a public figure, and the dense, watchful crowd suggests how much attention his passing drew.

Medium1 item.
Notes1883
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,352 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123316

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