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Show 120 unfinished. In some cases Bodmer was not totally to blame for difficulties.6^ Holscher himself was not singlemindedly committed to Travels. The publication by Holscher of other Rhineland albums, in which either Bodmer or some of his etchers were involved, continued to divert the energies of the Paris studio. The more notable of these, Das Moseltal zwischen Trier und Coblenz and Malerische Ansichten des Rheins und der Lahn included several of the paintings Bodmer had executed after his return to Europe and while he was still in the Coblenz-Cologne area. These books, published by Holscher in 1836 and 1837, were probably issued to subscribers in fascicles, since work on some of the etchings continued well into 1838. In a shipment of Travels plates on September 17, 1838, Bodmer included fifty copies of Bomhofen. one of those illustrations. Work was obviously done in his studio; very likely it was etched by Sigismond Himley, who was probably working on The White Castles at the same time.66 The first copies of Tableau 37, The White Castles-245 black and white and forty-five chine colle prints-were forwarded to Holscher on November 28, 1838. This print had originally been intended for the sixth issue, but production problems with at least one of the prints of the fifth issue forced Bodmer to change the printing order and to substitute Tableau 37. The difficulties Bodmer had experienced in dealing with his publishers, his etchers, and with the creation of an estimated fifty thousand prints made such production problems common. |
