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Ride of the Valkyries.

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) to Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.

[edit] Source

The immediate source of this image as uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons is:

http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/rackham.pl?../galleries/rackham/ring//home/haukur/rackham/ring28.jpg

Originally the image was published in the following book:

  • Wagner, Richard (translated by Margaret Amour) (1910). The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. London:William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page.

[edit] Licencing

Having been published in the United States prior to January 1, 1923, the image is in the public domain in that country. It is also in the public domain in countries with copyright terms of 50 years after death of author. Under current law the image will enter the public domain in the European Union on January 1, 2010.

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