- Museum number
- 1958,0712.2985.1-17
- Title
- Object: Collection of Swiss views by various artists
- Description
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Album containing unnumbered 17 views of Switzerland; half-bound in red leather and marbled paper
Aquatints, with etching and hand-colouring, each with an individual dedication and title as follows:
1) View of the devil's bridge with dedication (no title)
2) 'Vue d'un pont sur l'Aar. Canton de Berne'
3) 'Vue de la chute du torrent de Gelten.'
4) 'Vue du Schild-Wald-Bach. Prise en Hyver.'
5) 'Chute de la Tritt dans la vallée de Muhle-thal.'
6) 'Chute de l'Aar au dessus de Gutdannen.'
Outline etchings, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
7) 'Chute d'Eau apellée Staubbach dans la Vallée Louterbrunen'
8) 'Chute d'eau apellée Staubbach dans la Vallée Louterbrunnen.'
9) 'Une Partie des Glaciers du Grindelwald.'
10) Fantastic representation of an avalanche in a rocky landscape, inscribed underneath 'Une Avalanche.' (pen and brown ink)
11) 'Vuë d'une partie de la Chûte d'eau a Douanne dans le Canton de Berne.'
12) 'Seconde partie de la Chûte d'eau a Douanne dans le Canton de Berne.'
13) 'Vue de l'eglise de ferney.'
14) 'Vue du Tombeau de Voltaire a ferney.'
15) View of the castle of Rotzberg at the Lake of the four Cantons, inscribed underneath 'Ruine du Chateau sur le Rozberg. Canton Unterwalden, avec un Hermitage.' (pen and brown ink)
16) 'Monsieur Desaussure son fils & ses guides arivant au glacier du Tacul au grand Géant où ils ont habité 17 Jours sous des Tentes en Juillet 1788.'
17) 'Monsieur Desaussure son fils et ses guides descendant le glacier du Tacul'
- Production date
- 1754-1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 444 millimetres (album)
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Height: 325 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 235 millimetres
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Width: 371 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For no. 1-6 see the related series in the Lloyd collection, 1958,0712.2977 (1-41) and 1958,0712.2986 (1-10); see also curator's comment in 1921,0471.70
For no. 7 see 1958,0712.516
For no. 8 see curator's comment in 1889,1129.12
For no. 9 see 1958,0712.497 - 1958,0712.502
No. 10 was published in: David Herrliberger, 'Neue und vollstaendige Topographie der Eydgenossenschaft', 2 parts, Zurich/Basel 1754-1777, part I, no. 42
For no. 11 see 1958,0712.1049 and 1958,0712.1052
For no. 12 see 1958,0712.1053
No. 13 and 14 are copies after prints published in: 'Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques et littéraires de la Suisse', 4 parts, Paris 1780-1788, part II, no. 161
For no. 16, which is a copy after a print by Marquard Wocher, see curator's comment in 1958,0712.2817. No. 17 is printed on Whatman paper dated 1794.
- 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
- 1958,0712.2985.1-17
