Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing:
not indicated in the print - best estimate: 1880s
- Publisher: Verlag von Karl Neuland, Frankfurt am Main
- Condition: 1-2 (1.
Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Slightly uneven ("wavy") along the left blank margin.
- Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches, (23 x 30 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the images.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Note:
1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background
on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
From an old description:
- Once
more upon the Rhine we pass the village of Horehheim, which is the last
belonging to Prussia in this direction, and which is opposite the
island of Oberwerth, on which once stood a nunnery, now the country
house of Count Pfaffenhofen. Three miles further on is the castle of
Stolzenfels, finely situated, and overlooking a little village called
Kapellau, and nearly opposite the confluence of the Lahn with the
Rhine. Its commanding- position seems to justify the name of the Proud
Bock, looking, as it does, down upon the river amongst mountains grand
and terrible. It was here that the then King of Prussia entertained her
majesty, Queen Victoria, in 1845, he having fitted it up as a summer
residence for himself. Opposite is the beautiful valley of the Lahn,
and, with the stream, the view from it embraces the valley of the
Drinkholde, with Rheuse, Oberlahnstein, and Marksburg. Dounnard
Coblentz is seen with its fortifications, and the mountains of
Andernach in the distance. From Stolzenfels to Lahnstein there is a
ferry; also another over the mouth of the Lahn.
- On the top of a hill at the mouth of the Lahn, the restored
castle of Lahneek is to be seen. Below is the church of St. John,
erected about 1100, but reduced to a ruin through a law-suit
respecting the liability of the tithe-owner to repair it, which
continued through forty weary years. Beyond is the village of
Nieder-Lahnstein, on the right bank where the Russians, under St.
Priest, in 1814, crossed the Rhine. The castle of Lahneek suggested
Goethe's verses of "Geister Gruss." In one of the apartments of the
castle of Stolzenfels there are several frescoes, representing the
knightly virtues and accomplishments of Courage, Justice, Fidelity,
Perseverance, Love, and Music. They are embodied in incidents taken
from history, and are painted by Stilke. In another room is an
armoury, where are preserved the swords of Tilly, Napoleon I., Blucher,
Murat, and others. These, memorials of great generals have a certain
value as collections of the profession of arms in which their
original possessors were such eminent masters.
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