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SCHLOSS NEUWIED - WIETUNG, H.
Grund Riss des Hoch-Grafflichen Schloss und der Stadt Neuwied...Neuwied, 17 July 1756. Manuscript plan of the schloss and town of Neuwied, ink and wash on two sheets of paper, joined, 510 x 950 mm. Title and index set in a panel at left margin in a gold fringed drape cartouche, the pelmet surmounted by the arms of the Zu Wied family and those of the town both heightened in gold and supported by two lions crowned above. The plan delicately drawn showing at the lower margin the Rhine decorated with three ships, Schloss Neuwied and its ornamental gardens, the layout of the town showing the roads and principal churches, with the field strips surrounding, most with ownership names, north arrow and scale bar. (Neat tear repaired at right margin, paper affected by damp at lower centrefold.)
A fine plan of Schloss Neuwied, its gardens and the town. Neuwied lies 15 miles north of Koblenz in the Rheinland-Pfalz. Weitung descibes himself as a feuerwerker, but was probably a munitions expert, who was also trained in the military art of surveying. Schloss Neuwied was later the home of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied who travelled extensively with Bodmer in the Interior of North America in the 1830's.
Grund Riss des Hoch-Grafflichen Schloss und der Stadt Neuwied...Neuwied, 17 July 1756. Manuscript plan of the schloss and town of Neuwied, ink and wash on two sheets of paper, joined, 510 x 950 mm. Title and index set in a panel at left margin in a gold fringed drape cartouche, the pelmet surmounted by the arms of the Zu Wied family and those of the town both heightened in gold and supported by two lions crowned above. The plan delicately drawn showing at the lower margin the Rhine decorated with three ships, Schloss Neuwied and its ornamental gardens, the layout of the town showing the roads and principal churches, with the field strips surrounding, most with ownership names, north arrow and scale bar. (Neat tear repaired at right margin, paper affected by damp at lower centrefold.)
A fine plan of Schloss Neuwied, its gardens and the town. Neuwied lies 15 miles north of Koblenz in the Rheinland-Pfalz. Weitung descibes himself as a feuerwerker, but was probably a munitions expert, who was also trained in the military art of surveying. Schloss Neuwied was later the home of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied who travelled extensively with Bodmer in the Interior of North America in the 1830's.
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