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- Museum number
- 1860,0728.183
- Title
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Object: Serment des Trois Suisses
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Series: Galerie du Palais Royal
- Description
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Arnold de Melchtal, Walter Fürst et Werner Stauffacher, representing the three communities of Switzerland, standing legs akimbo as they pledge an oath at Grütli, overlooking a lake and mountains; after Steuben
Lithograph on buff chine collé
- Production date
- 1825-1829 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 289 millimetres (image)
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Width: 227 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to the legend, the oath was declared between three confederates, Arnold de Melchtal, Walter Fürst et Werner Stauffacher, repesenting the communities of the valleys of Uri, Schwytz and Unterwald. The legend has been confused with an actual historial event in 1291, a pact of alliance between the three communities which constitute present dty Switzerland.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0728.183
