CROATIA Ilok Castle & Monastery - 1852 Antique Print Engraving

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving (Intaglio) - Original antique print. Year of printing: not indicated in the print. Actual: 1852 Publisher: Charles A. Dana, New York, 164 William Street. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). This print was salved from an old book of prints, stained with brown age spots like the page (NOT INCLUDED) in the last photo, showing the year of publication. To save the print, I had it cleaned. Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches (18 x 25 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: The Castle and Monastery of Illock [Ilok, Croatia]: Far in the interior of Hungary, where the Drave unites with the Danube and separates countries and races, near the confines of Sclavonia, a little fortress looks down from its mountain top upon the rivers and and plains below. This is Illock, the castle; and the neck of the height bears a cloister. All the country around is classic. Here eighteen centuries ago, Rome, with the help of German warriors, conquered the land and yoked the free people of Thrace; from hence her consuls and emperors brought the captured kings and generals of the vanquished for the decoration of their triumphal processions, to dazzle the eyes of the idle, staring, ambitious multitude of the seven-hilled city; and here, where several military roads crossed, sprung up numerous Roman cities and colonies, and were erected by the emperors those extraordinary works of fortification, on the possession of which has ever depended the occupation of the most important strategic points of the country. As far as the eye can reach from the towers of Illock, the landscape is a battle-field, where, from times of tradition to the present day, hired warriors and independent peoples were wrestling, robbers with the robbed, oppressors with the oppressed, freemen with the captives, who had come, at the command of their masters, to deprive nations of liberty. Near Illock had Rome obtained a central position for her power, by which she held the countries of the Lower Danube under her iron yoke. Those extensive and impregnable fortifications which she constructed in the marshes between the Drave and the Danube, served as the stationary-quarters for the veterans, who had exhausted themselves in the battles of the Republic and the Empire, and for the formidable German legions, whose strength and valor converted all battles into victories. It was there that the Romans attempted to establish a lasting and firm support of their power by military colonies of German warriors, of the existence of which numerous traditions and the names of many places still give testimony. The populous Teutoburgum (Citadel of Teut) was situated in this region. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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