Procession of knights, ca. 1884

Title

Procession of knights

Draughtsman

• Wilhelm Steinhausen

Part Number / Total

29 / 53

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk
• vellum paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• preliminary drawing for a book illustration

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert unten rechts (mit der Feder in Schwarz): WSt [ligiert]

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten links mit der zugehörigen Inventarnummer (mit Bleistift)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1953

Genre

• historical narration
• literary representation

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Heinrich Steinhausen

Illustrated Passage

• Heinrich Steinhausen: Irmela. Eine Geschichte aus alter Zeit, Kapitel 6

Primary

• 25I5(+1) landscape with tower or castle (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 46A124 knight
• 46C131(+24) riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman (+ four persons or more ~ traffic and transport)
• 46A123 herald
• 46A1251 page, footboy