Majestic Waterfalls: Niagara Falls and Rhine Falls in 19th-Century Engraving

Name: Majestic Waterfalls: Niagara Falls and Rhine Falls in 19th-Century Engraving
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14000-53
Price: 145 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23 × 22 cm (9.1 × 8.7 in)
Condition: Good. The engraving is in very good condition, with minor foxing and light edge discoloration. The hand-coloring has been preserved well, adding depth to the scenes and emphasizing the contrast between the flowing water and surrounding landscapes.
Places: New York
Reference: BG-14000-53

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Falls of Niagara and the Falls of the Rhine, a copper engraving of 1805 from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fuer Kinder (Picture Book for Children), printed in brown with hand color. The plate is headed in German, French, English and Latin as Miscellanea, numbered LVII, and the two views are marked Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.

Fig. 1, at the top, shows Niagara: a long line of falling water breaking into spray along the lip of the cliff, with clouds of mist rising above it, a wooded bank in the foreground and a distant shore across the river. Fig. 2, below, shows the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen: the river breaks around two rock stacks in white foam, a mill and houses stand on the left bank, a castle and a church tower crown the cliff at the right, and a small group of people looks on from the shore.

Bertuch's picture book was published at Weimar in twelve volumes from 1790 to 1830, and pairing the two falls here set the great waterfall of North America against the largest in Europe.

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