Isle of Mainau Constance (i.e. Konstanz) Baden Germany – Vintage Wall Art
![Isle of Mainau Constance (i.e. Konstanz) Baden Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d65772e7d340-L.webp)
(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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Isle of Mainau Constance (i.e. Konstanz) Baden Germany comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Isle of Mainau Constance (i.e. Konstanz) Baden Germany
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Mainau is a small island in Lake Constance, the Bodensee, just off the German city of Konstanz in Baden, and this view presents it as a place of gardens and a palace rather than a town street. The print is a photochrom, a color process that began with a black-and-white photographic negative, which was then transferred to a set of lithographic stones, one per color, and hand-finished. Detroit Publishing Co. sold such views in America, and this example is numbered 1585 in its 1905 catalog. Its estimated date falls in the 1890s, when the process was popular for postcard-style travel pictures of Europe, so the image offers a snapshot of tourism on the lake at that time.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 1585. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,655 × 2,738 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2008_Isle_of_Mainau_Constanc_1890.tif-00297u |
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