Picture Gallery: "Chess in Wolfenbüttel"
-
Title Page of Duke August's Chess Book -
Duke August Junior (on the right) playing chess (copperplate engraving from his chess book) -
Dedication by Duke August in his chess book:
Wir, Augustus der Jüngere,
Herzog zu Braunschweig und
Lüneburg, verwahren dießes
Schach-Buch, auß genehmigter Affe-
ction, zum Gedechtniß, dem Neffen,
unserem Lieben Besonderen, Sa-
muel Beeren, sz. Mecklenbur-
gischer Rath und Hofmeister
Zu Schwerin: den 25. Januar 1617
Unterschrift
-
Moses Mendelssohn (on the left) and Johann Kaspar Lavater playing chess. Lessing is watching. (Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856) -
Table for board games being located in the "Lessinghaus" -
Restaurant "Zum Löwen" at about 1870 on Breite Herzogstrasse -
Chess set of Duke August (Brunswick, Anton-Ulrich-Museum)