print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.1059
- Title
- Object: Vue d'Evian, sur le Lac de Genève
- Description
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View of a lake, with a town on the shore which curves from the left forground into the centre, low mountains in the background and two men punting a sailing raft laden with barrels in the right foreground; plate X, illustration to 'Voyage Pittoresque aux Alpes Peninnes' (1787).
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1787 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres (image)
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Height: 206 millimetres (trimmed to platemark?)
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Width: 255 millimetres (image)
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Width: 273 millimetres (trimmed to platemark?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of twelve views, engraved by Beaumont. Details of the title-page as given in Abbey, are: 'Voyage pittoresque aux Alpes Pennines. Précédé de quelques observations sur les hauteurs des montagnes, glaciers & des différens villages qui se trouvent sur cette route. Suivi de quelques notes pour servir d'explication aux Dessins qui composent cet Ouvrage. Dédié a Son Altesse Royal La Princesse Sophie-Matilde de Gloucester. Par Albanis Beaumont. Ingénieur-Pensionné de Sa Majesté le Roi de Sardaigne, & Professeur en Mathématiques & Fortification de Son Altesse Royale le Prince William. / A Geneve, Chez Isac Bardin. / De l'imprimerie de Bonnant, Imprimeur-Libraire. / M.DCC.LXXXVII'.
Abbey states that the colouring was done by Gabriel Lory the elder, referring to Nagler, who described the plates as being of value 'durch den geschmackvollen Pinsel des Berners Lory' in 1835, which Abbey suggests may have led to the ODNB stating that the colourer was Bernard Lory the elder.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage pittoresque aux Alpes Pennines...
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.1059
