Print Description
Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 13.6 x 22.6 cm (5.35 x 8.9 inch). Image size: 10 x 20 cm. (3.94 x 7.87 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing and some dampstaining in outer margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
KOBLENZ, COBLENZ, EHRENBREITSTEIN, RHINE RIVER, RHINELAND, FORTRESS, LANDSCAPE, PANORAMA, 19TH CENTURY, GERMANY | PCO-C1-22
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Tombleson’s Views of the Rhine’, Volume 1, first edition, 1832, published by Black & Armstrong, London. Foreign Booksellers to the King.
Biography engraver: John Jackson (1801-1848) was a British wood-engraver; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, 1823-24; worked for James Northcote, RA, and William Harvey in London. Signed his work: ‘J J fecit,’ or ‘JJ.’; occasionally referred as John Jackson Junior as for his father who had the same name.
Biography artist: William Tombleson (1795-1846) was a British topographical artist, illustrator, and engraver. He is best known for his detailed and picturesque views of European rivers, particularly the Rhine and the Thames.
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