View of the ruins of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress overlooking the town of Koblenz on the River Rhine, 1802. It was blown up by the French in 1801. Vue d'Ehrenbreitstein apres sa demolition. After a painting by landscape artist Laurenz Janscha. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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