On the Second Floor is the collection of water-colours
and drawings (modern works of art predominating). Director,
Aug. Schäffer.
The large Central Room adjoining the staircase contains twelve large
cartoons by J. C. Vermeyen, representing scenes from the expedition of
Emp. Charles V. to Tunis ( 1535; patterns for the Brussels tapestry in the
palace at Madrid).
Room XXXV, to the right of the staircase. 6. Jos. von Führich, Head
of the Virgin ( 1865); Rud. Alt, 8. Court of the Doge's palace, 15. Interior
of St. Mark's at Venice, 42. Fountain at Trent; 44. Jak. Alt, Town Hall
at Cologne. — R. XXXVI contains the 'Crown-Prince's Album', a collec-
tion of water-colours and drawings by Austrian artists, presented to the
late Crown-Prince Rudolph on his marriage in 1881. The best are: 66.
Matejko, John Sobieski; 128. Fr. Defregger, The Prince and Princess in the
peasant's hut. In this room also are marble busts of Radetzky, by Giov.
Emanueli, and Tegetthoff, by K. Kundmann. — R. XXXVII. 143-232. Selleny,
Studies made during the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian
war-ship 'Novara' ( 1857-1859). — R. XXXVIII. 233-244. Franz Alt, Ancient
and Modern Vienna; 245. Ed. von Steinle, Sketch for a stained-glass window
in the Votive Church; 246. Moritz von Schwind, Diana hunting (Cartoon).
— Cabinet for the Crown-Prince's Album (see above), with paintings by
Hans Canon; two volumes with Japanese coloured wood-cuts. Also:
J. Tautenhayn the Elder, Hercules struggling with the Amazons, bronze-
relief; modern fayence from Holitsch. — R. XXXIX. 249-261. Mařák, Cha-
racteristic Austrian trees; no number, F. Knopff, An English girl. —
R. XL. 264. Moritz von Schwind, Legend of the Beautiful Melusina, a series
of 11 water-colour drawings; J. Tautenhayn the Elder, Circular silver shield,
with the contest of the Lapithæ and Centaurs. — We return to the stair-
case and cross it to R. XLI. 295. Passini, Gourd-seller at Chioggia.—
R. XLII. 306-340. Seelos, Lighthouses and harbours on the coasts of Istria
and Dalmatia; 341-353. K. Göbel, The former Ambras Collection in the
Belvedere. — R. XLIII. 395-408. Fr. overbeck, Passion of Christ; drawings
by Führich (435. Heart of the Madonna). — R. XLIV. Designs for the
interior decoration of the Imperial Museum and the new Burg Theatre,
including 409-412. Makart, Sketches for the lunettes and for the ceiling-
painting (unexecuted) in the Art-History Museum, representing the Victory
of Light over Darkness; 427-434. H. Canon, Sketches for the lunettes and
ceiling of the Imperial Museum. The cabinets contain Costumes of the
middle of the 18th cent. (fine embroideries). — R. XLV. 460. Profile por-
trait of Leo X., painted in 1513. — At the window. 1524. Albr. Dürer,
Life of the Virgin (drawings).
II. THE OUTER DISTRICTS.
g. N. E. Districts: Leopoldstadt and Brigittenau. The Prater.
Tramways: Nos. A1, 6, 16, 25, and 29 ply to the Prater-Stern. No. 18
runs through the Tabor-Strasse. — Gridle railway (p. 6) from the Custom
House to the Prater-Stern.
Of the 19 outer districts of Vienna, Leopoldetadt, the second.
(II. Bezirk), the Jewish quarter of Vienna since 1622, lies on the
N. side of the Danube Canal. Its chief arteries of traffic are the
Prater-Strasse (Pl. II; E, F, 2, 1), leading from the Aspern-
Brücke to the Prater-Stern (p. 64), and the Tabor-Strasse, lead-
ing to the N. W. Station (Pl. 1, F, 3). In the Prater-Str. are situated
the Carl Theatre (p. 7) and the Church of St. John, built by
K. Rösner in 1842-46 and decorated with frescoes by Jos. von
Führich and others. Near this, Tempelgasse 5, is the Synagogue