Christian Friedrich Collection

Night scene in a cave with an old woman holding burning coals in a pot, a boy blowing into the fire at left, ca. 1750-57

Riverside with Three Bathing Boys, 19th century. Creator: Christian Friedrich Gille
Riverside with Three Bathing Boys, 19th century

La Souris, c1763. Creator: Christian Friedrich Fritzsch
La Souris, c1763. The mouse, and below its skeleton. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi", (Natural History, General and Particular)

La Noctule & La Serotine, c1763. Creator: Christian Friedrich Fritzsch
La Noctule & La Serotine, c1763. The Common noctule bat and the serotine bat. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi", (Natural History)

La Chauve-Souris les Ailes entendues & La Chauve-Souris sur ses quatre Jambes, c1763. Bat shown with wings extended, and on all fours

Le Fer-A-Cheval & Le Fer-A-Cheval suspendu par les pieds, c1763. The Greater horseshoe bat showin on all fours, and hanging upside-down

La Taupe & La Taupe Depoiuillee de sa Peau, c1763. The mole, and the mole without its skin. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi"

La Barbastelle & La Pipistrelle, c1763. Creator: Christian Friedrich Fritzsch
La Barbastelle & La Pipistrelle, c1763. The barbastelle bat and the pipistrelle bat. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi"

Georg II, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Georg II, (1933). Portrait of George II (1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lü neburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire

Robert Walpole, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Robert Walpole, (1933). Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745). Although the title was never used to refer to him at the time

Georg Friedrich Handel, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Georg Friedrich Ha ndel, (1933). Portrait of German-born British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) who lived much of his life in England, where he composed his masterpiece

Christian Frederick Zincke, 1752. Artist: William Hoare
Christian Frederick Zincke, 1752. Zincke (c1684-1767), painter of miniatures in enamels. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXIII, edited by C. Reginald Grundy. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1929]

Group of portraits, late 17th - early 18th century (1906). Top: Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough; top left: Lady Katherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry; top right: John, Duke of Montagu

Group of royal portraits, late 17th - early 18th century (1906). Queen Anne (enamel by C Boit, 1713), William III (portion of miniature), Mary II (enamel by CF Zincke), George I (by Bernard Lens)

Christian Friedrich Schoenbein (1799-1868), German-Swiss chemist, 1900. Schoebein is perhaps best known his discovery of guncotton

Baron Stockmar, (1787-1863), 19th century. Anglo-Belgian statesman, born in Coburg of a Swedish family. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, (1900)

Christian Friedrich Schwarz, German Protestant missionary to India, (1834). Artist: E Scriven
Christian Friedrich Schwarz, German Protestant missionary to India, (1834). Schwarz (1726-1798) spent almost fifty years working in India

Self-portrait, 1840. Artist: Friedrich Kuhnel
Self-portrait, 1840. Kuhnel, Friedrich (1766-1841). Found in the collection of the State V. Tropinin-Museum, Moscow

Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898. Schonbein (1799-1869) began his investigation of ozone in 1839. He worked on nitrocellulose and produced gunoctton for use in firearms in 1846

Woman with a Raven (Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund), probably 1803

Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen B... probably 1803)
Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen), probably 1803

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