Röchling, Carl (Saarbrücken 1855 - 1920 Berlin), Erstürmung wohl der Spicherer Höhen durch das Preußische Militär im Deutsch/Französischen Krieg 1870/71, watercolor, lower right sign. K. Röchling (probably the K for German national reasons), c. 44 x 58 cm (mount cut-out), watercolor mounted on further paper, in the area of the sky a large and a small missing part, paper somewhat browned, in profiled wooden frame, framed under glass, total size 74x74 cm, framed under glass. Glass cleaned, overall size: 74,5 x 86 cm, traces of age, frame dam. 4347-020b

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