LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE AND BLUE BEEHIVE MARKS, INCISED 330 - 200, IMPRESSED SZ AND S, SIGNED F. WAGNER.WIEN.,

Gabrial Cornelius von Max, is recorded in Prague and Munich (1840-1915).

The most celebrated use of the Thannhäuser legend is Wagner's three-act opera. The scene shown here is prior to his escape from Venusburg, place of fleshly temptation.