Corona-Damenrad — Antique Bicycle Engraving, Fahrräder I. (Meyers / Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig)

This detailed engraving is a figure from a plate titled Fahrräder I. ("Bicycles I."), printed by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig — the publishing house famous for Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a monumental German encyclopedia whose finely engraved plates illustrated everything from machinery to natural history. The artist of this particular plate is not recorded.

The image shows a Corona-Damenrad — a "Corona ladies' bicycle." The low-slung, dropped top tube is the classic step-through frame designed for riders in long skirts, a hallmark of late 19th- and early 20th-century women's cycling. Rendered in crisp encyclopedic line-engraving, the drawing captures the sprung leather saddle, upswept handlebars, chain guard, large spoked wheels with mudguards, and the pedal crank and chainring in meticulous technical detail.

Plates like this were meant to be precise and informative rather than decorative, and they document the engineering and everyday design of their era with remarkable clarity. The printed caption "CORONA-DAMENRAD" appears beneath the figure.

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