drawing
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.2975.6
- Title
- Object: La Cascade de Pissevache.
- Description
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View of Pissevache in the Rhône valley, the waterfall pouring down a mountain-side to the right, the valley with mountains in the background to the left, with figures and animals in the foreground; the sixth of 33 watercolour views in a publication 'Voyage pittoresque de Geneve a Milan par le Simplon.'. Paris, P. Didot l'ainé, 1811.
Watercolour, with a black ink border and a wide grey wash border
- Production date
- 1811 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 198 millimetres (image)
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Height: 290 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 283 millimetres
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Width: 370 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This watercolour is one of a series, 1958,0712.2975 (1-34), that was published in book form with prints by Gabriel Lory and his son, see 1958,0712.2983.1-35 (Mandach, 172-206).
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1958,0712.2975.6
