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Object Type
Museum number: 1958,0712.1743
Title: Object: Vue de la Grande Glacier du Grindelwald prise de Cote
Description: View of a glacier between two green hillsides, tall trees standing in front of it surrounded by a fence, peasant women sitting in the left foreground Etching with hand colouring
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1780 - 1790 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Augsburg
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 235 millimetres; Width: 355 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: It is possible that this print was engraved after one belonging to the series "Tableau topographiques, pittoresques... de la Suisse" 1780 - 1788, see IFF, Graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Vol. 13, Pg. 78
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Grindelwald
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1958
Acquisition notes: UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1958,0712.1743
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 556 (Lloyd Number)

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