COMMEMORATIVE EMBROIDERY IMAGE FOR THE "ILTIS. MONUMENT" IN SHANGHAI

Embroidered souvenir of the "ILTIS. Memorial" in Shanghai: The German gunboat Iltis sank in a typhoon. Of 85 crew members, only 14 survived the drama. The German sculptor August Friedrich Johann Kraus modeled a splintered, 6-metre-high bronze mast with a German flag and laurel wreath at its base, based on a sketch by Captain Müller. The memorial was unveiled in Shanghai on November 21 1898 in the presence of Prince Heinrich, who a year later became head of the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial Navy, and was destroyed in the 1960 during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Embroidered picture with frame 47x58cm., under glass, in old gilded stucco frame, embroidery with monument and national flags.  .