The Castle Gardens, Karlsruhe, monument to Johann Peter Hebel, circa 1850-55
Stereoscopic daguerreotype, 3½ x 4 3/8 in., gilt card mount stamped W. T. Schneider, paper-taped.
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This monument to the German poet and writer, Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) was designed by Berckmüller and Fechtig. Hebel had been a private tutor and teacher in Karlsruhe in the late eighteenth century.