Dr. Von Eisenberg's aesthetico-neuralgicon – Antique Wall Art
(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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Dr. Von Eisenberg's aesthetico-neuralgicon comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Dr. Von Eisenberg's aesthetico-neuralgicon
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Dr. Von Eisenberg's aesthetico-neuralgicon is an odd, invented-sounding contraption, and its name alone suggests a joke aimed at the pseudo-scientific gadgets and nerve cures that crowded the market in the mid-nineteenth century. The wood engraving was published in Harper's Weekly in 1864, when that magazine was one of the country's most widely read illustrated newsweeklies and often used satirical images to comment on public life during the Civil War. Because the record is based on an old caption card and has not been fully verified, the exact target of the satire is best read from the drawing itself, where the machine's dense mechanical detail is worth a close look.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,228 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121879 |
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