A 19th-century hand-colored steel engraving of Oberwesel and Schonberg Castle (today Burg Schonburg) above the Rhine: the fortress on its crag, the town with its towers beside the water and peasant women with baskets in the foreground. After a drawing by William Henry Bartlett.
A 19th-century hand-colored steel engraving of Oberwesel and Schonberg Castle (today Burg Schonburg) above the Rhine: the fortress on its crag, the town with its towers beside the water and peasant women with baskets in the foreground. After a drawing by William Henry Bartlett.
Medium: steel engraving, hand-colored
Artist / after: William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854)
Engraver: A. Le Petit
Date: 19th century
Source: from an English series of Rhine views, with a trilingual caption in English, French and German
Dimensions: Image 4.9 x 7.4 in (12.5 x 18.9 cm)
Condition: a damp stain in the upper right margin, outside the image, and a small tear at the upper edge of the sheet; some foxing in the margins. The impression complete and the coloring well preserved