Collection de cinquante vues du Rhin. Fünfzig malerische ansichten des Rhein-stromes von Speyer bis Düsseldorf nach der Natur gezeichnet.

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Johann Ziegler and Lorenz Janscha, Artaria 1798


Maximilian Franz had the Viennese engravers Ziegler and Janscha visit Bonn in 1791; he not only wanted them to document the cityscape of Bonn and its court, but also sent them all over the Rhenish countryside. Many of these landscapes played a role in anecdotes about Beethoven in nature.

SJSU Beethoven Center has digitized their copy of a facsimile edition (Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1980), and reprints some of the edition’s explanatory text