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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1756275, member: 39&quot;]Great piece indeed. By the way, the designer Jacques or <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wiener" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wiener" rel="nofollow">Jacob Wiener</a> (article in German; the place where he was born is now in NW, DE) later lived in Brussels and made lots of medals, designed coins and postal stamps. Two of his brothers became chief engravers, of the Belgian and Portuguese mints. Around 1870 Wiener could hardly see any more, then had eye surgery which only helped temporarily; in 1877 he was blind.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The church depicted is in Rome - that is San Paolo fuori le Mura. The date (1823) refers to when it was almost completely destroyed by a fire; it was rebuilt afterwards. See the last but one paragraph of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls#History" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls#History" rel="nofollow">this section</a> (in English) ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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