Post by keri / Redsky

J. W. Champney's illustrations really are a big appeal for this series. i haven't even shown y'all the full page landscapes and architectural drawings, except that one of the bridge, which is beautiful but has nothing on the detail of the "entrance to Heidelberg Castle" I'm looking at right now

sep 1, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0

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which i guess i could be giving and unselfish and just post it for y'all lol the magic of modern social media! (remember when we had to have tinypic and similar to host our photos?)

It's a full page pen drawing/etching of the entrance to Heidelberg Castle, which is also the caption. The tower, in ruins is in the distance, while the entry wall stretches along our right. The nearer section is highly detailed in the stonework and carvings, but we can see that just a few stories up and a few yards past the doorway, the building has fallen into ruins as well. A thick curtain of ivy clings to the stones about where the ruins appear to begin. Visually, the ivy almost merges with trees to the left, across the small stone entry porch. A man is standing under the trees in the distance, which allows us to infer just how big the structure is.

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