Arrival of a large timber raft on the Rhine at Bonn. Made up of 1,000 logs, the raft was powered by a crew of 900 oarsmen. 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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