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Josephus Augustus Knip (Tillbourg 1777-1847 Berlin)
Lot 133

Josephus Augustus Knip (Tillbourg 1777-1847 Berlin)

A view of the road from Bonn to Bad Godesberg in Germany at sunset, with a gothic monument on the left and the ruins of Godesberg castle in the background, peasants repairing a carriage in the foreground

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Josephus Augustus Knip (Tillbourg 1777-1847 Berlin)
A view of the road from Bonn to Bad Godesberg in Germany at sunset, with a gothic monument on the left and the ruins of Godesberg castle in the background, peasants repairing a carriage in the foreground
signed 'JKnip' (recto, partly cut) and 'Gezigt van den weg fusgehen Bonn an Godesberg' (verso)
black lead, bodycolour
11½ x 16 7/8 in. (292 x 427 mm.)

Specialist note

Godesberg Castle was built in the early 13th Century by Archbishop Dietrich von Hegebach of Cologne, but was destroyed in the late 16th Century after Bishop Gebhart von Walburg sought refuge there following his conversion to Protestantism. The gothic monument on the left of the present drawing appears in an engraving by Samuel Prout published in Facsimiles of sketches made in Flanders and Germany and drawn on stone by Samuel Prout, FSA Painter in water colours in ordinary to his Majesty, published in London in 1833.