3-074-728 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Luther Celebration in Germany: room in which Luther was born at Eisleben, 1883. 'The four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, at Eisleben, in Prussian Saxony, was celebrated last Saturday, not only in that little town, where our Special Artist, Mr. W. Simpson, attended for this Journal, but in almost every city of Germany...The house in which Luther was born, and the house in which he died, were visited by multitudes of people... Mr. Simpson contributes a Sketch of the interior of the room in which Luther was born, at Eisleben, with the table-ornament of a metallic swan, and his inkstand.' From "Illustrated London News", 1883.