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A Hungarian nobleman accompanied by a student of the Academy for sons of the nobility "Theresianum", founded by Empress Maria Theresia; a beggarwoman and her children. From a series of "Viennese types", around 1810
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A Hungarian nobleman accompanied by a student of the Academy for sons of the...

A young farm boy in town; a page-boy with a letter and a lackey of the Imperial Court. From a series of "Viennese types", around 1810
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A young farm boy in town; a page-boy with a letter and a lackey of the Imperial...

A Vienna coffeehouse at the beginning of the 19th. Patrons play chess, read newspapers, an Armenian merchant watches the chess players. Armenians seem to have made coffee popular in Vienna.
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A Vienna coffeehouse at the beginning of the 19th. Patrons play chess, read...

Street musicians in Vienna, early 19th. Watercolour by Lanzedelli. Inv. 51.060
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Street musicians in Vienna, early 19th. Watercolour by Lanzedelli. Inv. 51.060

Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), most famous Austrian dramatist. His plays, antique topics or episodes from Austrian history, often got the poet into scraps with the Imperial censorship. Oil on cardboard
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Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), most famous Austrian dramatist. His plays, an...

Actress Sophie Schroeder as the Medea,from Grillparzer's play. Inv. 10.080
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Actress Sophie Schroeder as the Medea,from Grillp...

Costume design for Medea, heroine of one of Franz Grillparzer's plays. Inv. 63.616
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Costume design for Medea, heroine of one of Franz...

The popular poet Friedrich Kaiser reading out the Constitution on March 15th, 1848. Contemporary illustration from the Revolution of 1848, hand-coloured. Inv. 87.536
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The popular poet Friedrich Kaiser reading out the Constitution on March 15...

A group of armed railway workers, led by a student of the Academic League, on their way to the center of Vienna, May 26, 1848 Watercolour by Franz Gaul Inv. 88.690
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A group of armed railway workers, led by a student of the Academic League, on...

Guard room of the Academic league in the hall of Vienna's Old University in city center. by Franz Schams. Pen and watercolour, 17,4 x 23,7 cm
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Guard room of the Academic league in the hall of Vienna's Old University...

The big barricade on Michaeler Square, summer 1848, built right under the windows of the Imperial Palace (background, with cupola). Painting shows the heady atmosphere, like a popular festival, of those first revolutionary months. Oil by Ziegler.
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The big barricade on Michaeler Square, summer 1848, built right under the wi...

A day-labourers' uprising is broken up by the National Guard in the Vienna Prater on August 23, 1848. The revolution has split into the victorious liberal bourgeoisie and the yet unrepresented workmen. Hand-coloured lithograph.
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A day-labourers' uprising is broken up by the National Guard in the Vienna Prat...