Carved into a sandstone cliff above a quiet pool in Lucerne, the dying lion of the Löwendenkmal rests with a spear piercing his flank and one great paw draped protectively over a French royal shield — Mark Twain once called it "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world." This undivided-back pre-linen card, published by A.-G. Postkartenverlag Künzli of Zurich (card no. 7504), captures the monument in a softly vigneted photographic print with embossed borders, the Latin inscription HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI — "To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss" — just legible above the niche. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and carved by Lukas Ahorn between 1819 and 1821, the monument commemorates the Swiss Guards massacred defending the Tuileries Palace during the French Revolution of August 1792. The card is unused, making it an especially clean example of Künzli's high-quality pre-1904 production.