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Description
‘Adam und Eva’
Cast Iron in Germany
Cast iron, around 1850.
Heavy relief, weigthing 41 kg., 116 cm long.
Provenance: private possession, North Germany.
The relief assumably formed part of parapet of a bridge. Below a similar cast iron relief of the ‘Eiserne Brücke’ in Berlin.
Cast iron relief at the Zollenbrücke, Hamburg. Cast in 1835 by foundry David Christopher Metterkamp, design by Otto Sigismund Runge.
The ‘Blagoveshchensky Bridge’ (‘Annunciation Bridge]’) in St. Petersburg, 1850.
| – condition | : II protected with a (removable) black mixture of linseed and graphite |
| – size | : 116 x 40 x 3 cm |
| – signed | : created around 1850 |
| – type | : cast iron |
| – weight | : 41 kg |
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