Bacharach. View from the opposite bank with St. Peter & Werner Chapel below of Stahleck Castle as well as the Postenturm. On this bank of the Rhine peasants loading reed into a larger boat with mast & sail. Toned wood engraving after Richard Puettner (Wurzen 1842 – Munich 1913) for A. Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-76.) Inscribed: A. Püttner / A. Closs. X.I., otherwise typographically as above. 24.5 x 18 cm. – Atmospheric sheet in dramatic light , here from the contemporary Dutch edition.
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