Wyss Collection

We cast off and moved away from the wreck
5614281 We cast off and moved away from the wreck; (add.info.: "We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss)

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
DIE SCHWEIZERISCHE ROBINSON Mr & Mrs Robinson and their four sons sit down for the Sabbath Lecture. Date: First published 1812

Swiss Family Robinson Books Wyss First Published
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Libellus Valde Doctus Elegans, et Utilis, Multa et Varia Scribendarum (Elegant and Useful Book on the Learned Art of Writing), 1549

Working Model of a Pelton Turbine, Escher Wyss AG, Ravensburg, 1952. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

"We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann
" We cast off and moved away from the wreck". Illustration from the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Source Size = 2539 x 3731
The International Exhibition: Marine Engine by Messrs. Escher, Wyss, and Co. of Zurich, 1862

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