Obelisk Fountain (Boston Public Library)

Bpldc no. : 08_04_000446 page title: obelisk fountain collection: tupper scrapbooks collection album: volume 4: austria. Call no. : 4098b. 104 v4 (p. 1) creator: tupper, william vaughn genre: scrapbooks; albumen prints extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page: albumen; page 33 x 39 cm. Description: scrapbook page contains one photograph of the schönbrunn. Annotated information tells the history of the site and describes how the chateau received its name. Famous figures associated with the site are also mentioned in the annotation. Transcription: schönbrunn, near vienna was begun as a hunting lodge by the emperor matthias and completed under maria theresia in 1775. Napoleon established his head quarters here in 1804 - 1809 - and his son afterwards died in 1832 in the room once occupied by his father. This picture represents the schöne brunne. Whence the chateau derived its name. It is by bayer and the figure is that of the nymph egeria. Notes: library note above photograph: fine arts; mrs. T. Stevens oct 19, 1948 4098b. 104 v. 4.;page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.;caption on image: 15. Schönbrunn. Obelisk-allee. Bpl department: print department rights: no known restrictions. Flickr data on 2011-08-09: camera: sinar ag sinarback 54 fw, sinar m license: cc by 2. 0 user: boston public library bpl. Date: November—December 1894.