print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1927,0107.12
- Title
- Object: Cataract of the River Lech
- Description
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Alpine landscape with cascade through a natural arch in the centre, a woman wading with cattle in the left foreground, a cross on the hill above; after Albanis de Beaumont, from a series of illustrations to 'Travels through the Rhaetian Alps', 1792, pl.VII p.78.
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 318 millimetres
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Width: 446 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Full details from the title-page as given in Abbey are as follows: 'Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, in the year MDCCLXXXVI. From Italy to germany, through Tyrol: by Albanis Beaumont, in the service of the King of Sardinia. The work is ornamented with Ten large Aqua-tinta Engravings, from original designs, nby the author, relative to the picturesque beauties of the most interesting views. / London: Printed for the author, by C. Clarke; and sold by T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall; Sewell, in Cornhill; and Hookham, in Bond-Street'. Abbey also lists etched states before letters (Abbey Travel 49).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Travels through the Rhaetian Alps
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,0107.12
