One of 17 "character portraits of german trees" that illustrate the book the forest by ea roßmäßler as full-page copper engravings: motif: beech ("tharand's holy halls"), drawn by ernst heyn and engraved by adolf neumann the picture shows "a section of the left slope of the tharand bathing valley [. . ], which has become famous as 'tharand's holy halls' through the well-known poem by richard roos. " (quote from the book, p. 381) classification: fagus sylvatica near tharandt (spelled tharand throughout the book). Date: before 1863. (book published in fascicles 1861–1863; 17 copper engravings explicitly mentioned already in foreword, written in October, 1862).
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