2-798-696 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Inauguration of the Statue of Beethoven, at Bonn, 1845. Unveiling of the Beethoven Monument, a statue of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, in Bonn, Beethoven's birthplace. View of the event, showing '...the moment when the white cloth was removed from the Statue in the Cathedral Square, at a signal given by Dr. Breidenstein, the President of the Committee. A discharge of cannon, and musketry, and the shouts of the enormous assemblage were heard at the unveiling. The Queen [Victoria], Prince Albert, and the King and Queen of Prussia, were in the balcony of Count Furstenburg's house'. The sculpture was designed by Ernst Julius Hähnel. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.