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Baron Munchausen

Name: Baron Munchausen | William Nicholson
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 80408

William Nicholson

$350

British (1872–1949)

Date: circa 1900
Lithograph, titled in the plate
Image Size: 13.5 x 11 inches
Size: 19 x 15.5 in. (48.26 x 39.37 cm)
Frame Size: 20.5 x 17 inches

$350

Framed

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about Baron Munchausen

Color Lithograph of fictional German nobleman Baron Munchausen by British painter William Nicholson.

The fictional character was popularized by German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The character was based on the real Karl Friedrich Hieronymus and the embellished stories he told about war. The fictional character is famously characterized by a pointy nose and a curly mustache. The print is framed and titled in the plate.

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About The Artist: William Nicholson

Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was a British painter of still-life, landscape and portraits. He also worked as a printmaker in techniques including woodcut, wood-engraving and lithography, as an illustrator, as an author of children's books and as a designer for the theatre. William Nicholson was born in Newark-on-Trent on 5 February 1872, the youngest son of William Newzam Nicholson, an industrialist and Conservative MP of Newark, and his...

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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.

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