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Schubert, the kaleidoscope and a draisine
This is an aquarell by Schubert's friend Leopold Kupelwieser, for the journal of the 'Nonsense society' (Unsinnsgesellschaft) in Vienna, 16 July 1818.
Schubert is seen peering into a kaleidoscope, and Kupelwieser has drawn himself riding the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle. The kaleidoscope and the draisine were both very new at the time. Note that Schubert is shown holding a long stick. The stick appears to have been an 'in-joke' in the Unsinnsgesellschaft, a reference to Schubert being an assistant teacher at his father's school.
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