album;
print;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.2992.1-14
- Title
- Object: A collection of Swiss peasant houses and costumes (no title)
- Description
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Album containing 8 views of Swiss peasant houses and 6 watercolours of Swiss costumes; bound in board covers with brown marbled paper
Etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14); watercolour, over graphite (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12); individually titled as follows:
1) 'Canton de Berne.'
2) 'Berne, Berne, Gougguisberg, Oberhasli'
3) 'Canton d'Unterwalden.'
4) 'Bâle, Zoug, Glarus, Unterwalden'
5) 'Canton de Lucerne.'
6) 'Zurich, Lucerne, Schwiz, Ury'
7) 'Canton d'Unterwalden.'
8) 'Tessin, Grison, Appenzell, Wallais'
9) 'Vallée de Lauterbrunne.'
10) 'Thourgowie, Argowie, Vaud, St. Gallen'
11) 'Le Bain près du Reichenbach.'
12) 'Frybourg, Frybourg, Schaffhousen, Soleure'
13) 'Oberhasli.'
14) 'Canton d'Argovie.'
- Production date
- 1820 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 405 millimetres (album)
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Height: 205 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 280 millimetres
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Width: 325 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The prints may be part of a series of Swiss peasant houses. They are printed on Whatman paper dated 1816.
- 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
- 1958,0712.2992.1-14
