A Swedish clergyman showing the chalice to children at their first communion. Wood engraving after E. Oehme, 1881.

  • Oehme, Erwin (Ernst Erwin), 1831-1907.
Date:
[1881?]
Reference:
30133i
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A boy in the left foreground wears knee-breeches, suggesting that the setting is that of the poem Nattvardsbarnen (German "Die Abendmahlskinder) by Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846). This edition of the poem is advertised as a gift to confirmands, suggesting that the children in the engraving are first communicants

Publication/Creation

[Leipzig?] : [publisher not identified], [1881?]

Physical description

1 print : phototype ; image 31.7 x 23.3 cm

Lettering

Ein religiöses Prachtwerk! Die Abendmahlskinder. Eine religiöse Idylle von Esaias Tegnér. Aus dem Schwedischen von Edmund Zoller. Illustriert von Professor Erwin Oehme. Mit 4 Vollbildern in Lichtdruck ...

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Wellcome Collection 30133i

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