Laurenz Janscha & Johann Ziegler
Bresnitz in Oberkrain 1749 – 1812 Vienna & Meiningen 1749 - 1802 Vienna
”Collection de cinquante vues du Rhin [...]. Fünfzig malerische Ansichten des Rhein-Stromes von Speyer bis Düsseldorf nach der Natur gezeichnet”. 1798
Album with 50 hand-coloured copperplate engravings on laid paper by VanderLey, drawn by Laurenz Janscha, engraved by Johann Ziegler. 40,5 × 51,5 cm. (16 × 20 ¼ in.) Half-bound in green calfskin. With 50 illustrated descriptions in French and German on text paper by G & I Honig. [3085]
ProvenanceSarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey, London (presumably until 1867) / Corporate Collection, Germany (1995 acquired at The Schuster Gallery, London)
EUR 8.000 – 12.000
USD 8,600 – 12,900
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10,160 EUR (incl. premium)
With views of Speyer, Mannheim, Worms, Mainz, Koblenz, Remagen, Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, among others. Complete edition, especially lavishly coloured. A less elaborate edition can be found in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Centre in Koblenz; cf. https://www.dilibri.de/rlb/content/titleinfo/5374 (accessed on 2 April 2024).
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