Barrel-Organ – L’Arronge – (Hurdy-Gurdy Man and His Child, The.) Theodor l’Arronge (father of Adolph l’A., comic playwright, director of the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 1838-1908) as Frieder Kranich in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer’s play at the City Theater at (Berlin-Neu-)Cöln. Over the back the barrel-organ, the right is supported on the folding seat. Glazed colored lithograph printed with tone plate after a photograph by Müller, Cöln, for Louis Veit, Berlin. (1859/60.) 22.4 x 14.8 cm.
Sheet 48 of the Lipperheide set Ucd 19 on light cardboard. – Two ink lines as marks of former passepartout edging and written number “24”.
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