About The Artist:
Friedrich Bernhard Werner
Friedrich Bernhard Werner could be called a pictorial "chronicler" of not only Breslau, but many other parts of Silesia. In mid-18th century he produced a large number of color drawings depicting the city as it then was. He was also fairly meticulous - a lot of his drawings have various explanatory notes (in German, Latin and sometimes Italian) scribbled over them. Sometimes particular buildings depicted in his drawings are numbered, so that...
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About The Medium:
Lithograph
A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.