Baron Munchhausen
Baron Munchhausen
Record number: 23061901
Artist: Herrfurth, Oskar (German, 1862-1934)
Item caption, front: Münchhausen / O. Herrfurth, pinx.
Item caption/descriptive text, back: Münchhausens Abenteuer. 11. In einem strengen russischen Winter vermochte der Postillon von Münchhausen kein Signal auf seinem Horn zu blasen. Als sie darauf beim Küchenfeuer saßen, tönte es auf einmal: Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! Die Töne waren draußen im Horn fest gefroren, und kamen nun beim Auftauen prächtig zu Gehör. Ganze Lieder und Märsche klangen aus dem Horn. = Baron Münchhausen's Adventures. 11. During a severe Russian winter, Münchhausen's postilion was unable to blow his horn. As it sat by the kitchen fire, it suddenly sounded: Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! The notes had been frozen solid outside in the horn, and now they could be heard magnificently as they thawed. Entire songs and marches sounded from the horn.
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Dimensions: 141 x 91 mm.
Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier
Nationality: German
Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 324 Nr. 4922
Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting
Interpretive notes: Münchhausen and his postilion are astonished when the latter's post horn, which he had not been able to sound outside in severe winter weather, plays itself as the frozen notes are thawed by the kitchen fire.
Subject headings: Fire; Musical instruments
Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Baron Munchhausen
Baron Munchhausen
Record number: 23061901
Artist: Herrfurth, Oskar (German, 1862-1934)
Item caption, front: Münchhausen / O. Herrfurth, pinx.
Item caption/descriptive text, back: Münchhausens Abenteuer. 11. In einem strengen russischen Winter vermochte der Postillon von Münchhausen kein Signal auf seinem Horn zu blasen. Als sie darauf beim Küchenfeuer saßen, tönte es auf einmal: Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! Die Töne waren draußen im Horn fest gefroren, und kamen nun beim Auftauen prächtig zu Gehör. Ganze Lieder und Märsche klangen aus dem Horn. = Baron Münchhausen's Adventures. 11. During a severe Russian winter, Münchhausen's postilion was unable to blow his horn. As it sat by the kitchen fire, it suddenly sounded: Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! The notes had been frozen solid outside in the horn, and now they could be heard magnificently as they thawed. Entire songs and marches sounded from the horn.
Uniform title:
Dimensions: 141 x 91 mm.
Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier
Nationality: German
Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 324 Nr. 4922
Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting
Interpretive notes: Münchhausen and his postilion are astonished when the latter's post horn, which he had not been able to sound outside in severe winter weather, plays itself as the frozen notes are thawed by the kitchen fire.
Subject headings: Fire; Musical instruments
Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design