Friedrich Julius Tempeltei (German, 1802-1870)
after Carl Blechen (German, 1798-1840)
View of the Palm House on the Peacock-Island
INV-2073
Friedrich Julius Tempeltei (German, 1802-1870)
after Carl Blechen (German, 1798-1840)c. 1844
View of the Palm House on the Peacock-Island
Friedrich Julius Tempeltei (German, 1802-1870) after Carl Blechen (German, 1798-1840) →lithographprint
Date
c. 1844
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/primary support: 42.9 × 38.1 cm (16 15/16 × 15 in.); Secondary support: 71.8 × 54.8 cm (28 5/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Print and Drawing Fund; William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Exuding botanical lushness and concealing romanticized Asiatic women, this lithograph is a close copy of the Art Institute’s Carl Blechen painting on view nearby in gallery 221. The print and painting exhibit the collection of valuable palm trees acquired in 1830 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and housed in a structure designed by visionary architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to incorporate fragments of an Indian temple. The building, located on the grounds of the Sanssouci Palace on Peacock Island, near Berlin, burned down in 1880.