- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3007.1-64
- Title
- Object: Switzerland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett
- Description
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Book containing 64 unnumbered views of Switzerland including 7 Swiss costume prints mounted on separate sheets, with a frontispiece with an etching of a cottage near Thun and a separate title-page, a dedication to Queen Adelaide, a preface, table of contents and 188 pages of text by William Beattie with inserted prints; bound in blue leather with gold stamping and the title on the spine, London, 1836, Vol. I
Engraving and etching, the costume prints with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) A folded plate with the cloaks of the 22 cantons, titled underneath as follows: 'Uri', 'Schwyz', 'Unterwalden', 'Luzern', 'Zürich.', 'Glarus.', 'Zug', 'Bern', 'Freyburg.', 'Solothurn.', 'Basel.', 'Schaffhausen.', 'Appenzell.', 'St Gallen', 'Graubündten', 'Argau', 'Thurgaü.', 'Tessin', 'Waat', 'Neuenburg', 'Wallis', 'Genf''
2) 'Mont Blanc form the Jura.'
3) 'Geneva form the Ramparts.'
4) 'Paysanne du Canton de Genève' (costume)
5) 'Geneva from Cologny.'
6) 'Lake Leman. (From opposite the Villa of Lord Byron at Coligny.)'
7) 'Cluse, on the Arve-Savoy.'
8) 'Mont Blanc from above Sallenche.'
9) 'Baths of St. Gervais.'
10) 'Mer de Glace. (Chamouni.)'
11) 'The source of the Arveiron, valley of Chamouni.'
12) 'Glacier of Bossons. (Valley of Chamouni.)'
13) 'Mont Blanc, from Chamouni.'
14) 'Gallery on the 'Téte Noire' near Trient.'
15) 'The Col-de-Balme.'
16) 'Rock of Balmarussa, Tete Noire.'
17) 'The Valais & Martigny form the Forclas, pass of the Tete Noire.'
18) 'Pissevache Cascade. (Valais.)'
19) 'La Batia Castle, Martigny.'
20) 'Sion, from the W.'
21) 'Ruins of the Episcopal Palace, Sion. (Canton Valais.)'
22) 'Street in Sion-Valais.'
23) 'Castle of the Bishops of Sion-Valais.'
24) 'Cathedral of Sion, Valais.'
25) 'Viége or Visp - with Monté Rosa.'
26) 'Mount Cervin. (From near Stalden.)'
27) 'Scene in the valley of St. Nicholas.'
28) 'Brieg, with the ascent of the Simplon.'
29) 'The Bernese Alps.'
30) 'The Ponte Alto. (Simplon.)'
31) 'Gallery of Gondo. (Simplon.)'
32) 'Val Vedro - Simplon.'
33) 'Val d'Ossola. From the Simplon.'
34) 'Lugano. (Canton Tessin.)'
35) 'Magadino, Lage Maggiore. (Canton Tessin.)'
36) 'The Convent of La Madonna del Sasso above Locarno. (Canton Tessin.)'
37) 'Lake of Lugano. Canton Tessin.'
38) 'Lugano. (Canton Tessin.)'
39) 'Bellinzona. (Canton Tessin.)'
40) 'Castle & valley of Misocco looking towards Soazza.'
41) 'Bridge and Avalanche Gallery, St. Bernhardin.'
42) 'Hospice, Grand St. Bernard. (Vallais.)'
43) 'Village of Splugen.'
44) 'Bridge over the Rhine. (Near Suvers, Via mala.)'
45) 'The gorge of the Rhine, Via mala. (Grisons.)'
46) 'The second bridge, Via mala, (Grisons.)'
47) 'Gallery in the 'Trou perdu' near Tuses. (Grisons.)'
48) 'Fall of the Rhine in the Roffla. (Grisons.)'
49) 'Passage of the Cardinells. (Mount Splügen.)'
50) 'Scene on the Tessin, at monte Piotino.'
51) 'Airolo.'
52) 'L'Hopital.'
53) 'The Devil's Bridge. (Canton Uri.)'
54) 'Tell's chapel & the meadow of Grutli. (Lake of Lucerne.)'
55) 'Paysanne du Canton de Glaris.'
56) 'Tell's chapel. (Lake of Uri.)'
57) 'Schwyz.' (costume)
58) 'The abbey of Einsiedeln.'
59) 'Appenzell.' (costume)
60) 'Appenzell.' (costume)
61) 'St. Galle.' (costume)
62) 'Baths of Pfeffers. (Canton of St. Gall.)'
63) 'Gorge of the Tamina. (Baths of Pfeffers.)'
64) 'Junction of the Rhine & Tamina. (Above Ragatz.)'
- Production date
- 1836
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 286 millimetres (book)
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Width: 180 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the first volume of the publication. The second volume is also kept in the Lloyd collection, see 1958,0712.3008 (1-76).
The prints of this publication date from 1834 to 1836. They probably appeared first as single sheets before then have been published in two volumes together with the text in 1836. For the orientation of the bookbinder, a page with directions on where to insert the prints was included in each volume. There is no doubt that the costume prints were inlaid at the same time because their mountings have watermarks dated 1836. The costume prints by Gabriel Lory fils and Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz had been published beforehand in a series of 55 numbered plates in 1824.
For more information, see William Beattie, Die Schweiz. Mit Stahlstichen nach Original-Zeichnungen von William Henry Bartlett, ausgeführt von den vorzüglichsten Künstlern Englands, with a introduction by Bruno Weber, Zurich, Edition Olms, 1979
- 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
- 1958,0712.3007.1-64