I also found a beautiful illustration in a book of mine from 1840, showing the sleeping Chriemhilt (also known as Kriemhild) from the Nibelungenlied. This book was published with the Middle High German, so the spelling is different. The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem recounting the life of Siegfried the dragon slayer, his eventual murder, and his wife Kriemhild's revenge. The Nibelungenlied also served as the source material for Richard Wagner's opera, The Ring of the Nibelung.
The illustration was drawn by Julius Huebner and rendered as a woodcut by F. Unzelmann. The illustrations in this special celebration edition, are all very intricate and beautiful. I will feature more of them in the near future.
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Your mother is in almost the same position; nice link.
ReplyDeleteAgreed -- both are lovely!
ReplyDeleteThat’s a lovely picture of your mother. She looks very comfortable and relaxed.
ReplyDeleteWas that clicked in 1959?
ReplyDeleteI thought colour photography was something like "Eastmancolour" in those days.
The color in the photo looks different and better than that in the 1959 color photos I have.
ReplyDeleteThere is a tremendous amount of symbolism in the illustration. I look forward to seeing more.
ReplyDeleteYour mother does seem very at peace. There is nothing more relaxing than a nap in the sun!
It is amazing how much your mother and Chriemhilt lok alike. Both beautiful!
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Fun in the sun napping! Very cool photo of your Mother! Very nice themed post!
ReplyDeleteAnother nice early Kodacolor, and a nice song it was too ;-)
ReplyDeleteLovely photo of your mother; also what a special book you have, a real treasure.
ReplyDeleteMom is resting in the sun, nice. But that sketch in the book is truly gorgeous. They just do not make such things today despite our technology but then that was when books were considered valuable treasures.
ReplyDeleteI love the photo of your mom! I love the look and style of it, do you have more pics of this vintage of Mom? Love the lawn furniture, her hairstyle, and her bathing suit(reminds me of the style on the older barbie dolls, the black and white striped that earlier Barbies wore)
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a young movie star.
ReplyDeleteLove the illustrated page. And I recall when taking German in high school that 1/2 of our text were written in this old German. I used to be able to easily decipher it, but no more.
Another reclining mother! A great pairing and post on the Sepia theme.
ReplyDeleteBoth images are lovely!
ReplyDeleteDo you look very like your mother? I'm sure I recall an avatar that had a likeness.
Funny to combine these two images, more than a century apart. Well done!
ReplyDeleteMoms need their rest.
ReplyDeleteStopping by from random links from Sunday Stamps.
Sheila,
ReplyDeleteI do look a bit like my mother, but I'm a also bit older than she was there.
both fine examples of a theme.
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HUGZ
Lovely photo of your Mum (fantastic legs!) and comparison with Kriemhild - my mum was a sun worshipper - when we went on holiday her only demand was "come back and turn me over at lunchtime". And here I am covering myself in Factor 30 in Scotland!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a mid-century mod moment for mom!
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