Oesterreich Post "Great Austrian art exhibition in the Viennese Künstlerhaus"

OESTERREICH POST on 20 June 1947 issued a series of surtax stamps entitled "Great Austrian art exhibition in the Viennese Künstlerhaus".

"Österreichische Ausstellung in London" (Austrian Exhibition in London) which took place from 12th June till 5th July 1947. The stamps were postmarked "LONDON 1 WIEN 1 17.7.47" and "IM MESSEPALA" (in the Exhibition Palace). The cover was addressed to Mr. C.W. Nearn in Bexleyheath, Kent, England. 

The stamps depicted:

   - Corvinus cup (15th century)

   - Fountain figure "Providentia" by Raphael Donner

   - Benedictine monastery, Melk

   - Wife of Dr. Brante of Vienna

 - Farmer with children at window; Painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

   - Vienna, main gate of Belvedere Palace

   - Nymph Egeria at the Schlossbrunnen in Schönbrunn

   - National Library of Vienna

   - Workshop of the engraver Ernst Rohm; Lithograph by Ferdinand

   - Girl with straw hat; Painting by Friedrich von Amerling