album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3028.1-29
Title: Object: Souvenir de la Suisse.
Description: Album containing 29 unnumbered views by various printmakers of Switzerland, with a folded panorama of Zurich; bound in black linen with blind stamping and the title on the front cover Aquatints, with etching, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Panorama du Zurich prise de l'église de St. Pierre.' 2) 'Hôtel Baur au Lac de Zürich.' 3) 'Chûte du Rhin, près de Schaffhouse.' 4) 'Hof Ragaz.' 5) 'Les Bains de Pfaeffers en venant de Ragaz.' 6) 'Coire à la route de Splugen & de l'Engadin.' 7) 'Pont du milieu de la via mala, route de Splügen.' 8) 'Lac de Zoug.' 9) 'Luzerne.' 10) 'Lucerne. Vue du Schweizerhof & du mont Pilate.' 11) 'Hôtel Pilate.' 12) 'Hôtels sur le Righi Kulm prise du Signal.' 13) 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell au lac des IV Cantons avec la fête religieuse qu'on y célèbre chaque année en mémoire des événemens de 1307.' 14) 'Flüelen, vers le Birstenstock.' 15) 'Pont du Diable route du St. Gotthard.' 16) 'Berne prise de l'Observatoire, vers la chaine des Alpes.' 17) 'Berne. La promenade des remparts.' 18) 'Thoune. Vue générale, prise de l'Eglise.' 19) 'Interlaken.' 20) 'Giessbach, au lac de Brienz.' 21) 'Brienz.' 22) 'Hôtel de la croix blanche à Tracht près de Brienz.' 23) 'Le Glacier inferieur de Grindelwald.' 24) 'Vue du Wetterhorn et Wellhorn, et du Glacier de Rosenlauy.' 25) 'Vue du Staubbach à Lauterbrounnen' 26) 'Les Glaciers de Grindelwald.' 27) 'Genève prise depuis le quai du Mont-Blanc.' 28) 'Vue du Mont-Blanc et la vallée de Chamouny.' 29) 'Vevey, prise de l'Eglise de St. Martin.'
Producer name: After: Johann Rudolf Dickenmann; After: Gabriel Lory le fils; After: Georg Straub; Print made by: Johann Rudolf Dickenmann; Print made by: Heinrich Siegfried; Print made by: Johannes Ruff; Print made by: Lukas Weber; Print made by: Johann Kaspar Dickenmann; Published by: Johann Rudolf Dickenmann
School/style
Production date: 1880 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Zürich (city)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching
Dimensions: Height: 230 millimetres (album); Height: 135 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 195 millimetres; Width: 315 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Lake Zürich; Topographic representation of: Rheinfall; Topographic representation of: St Gallen (canton); Topographic representation of: Chur; Topographic representation of: Via Mala; Topographic representation of: Zuger See; Topographic representation of: Lucerne (city); Topographic representation of: Lake Lucerne; Topographic representation of: Uri; Topographic representation of: Bern (city); Topographic representation of: Berner Alpen; Topographic representation of: Thuner See; Topographic representation of: Interlaken; Topographic representation of: Brienz; Topographic representation of: Brienzer See; Topographic representation of: Grindelwald; Topographic representation of: Staubbach Falls; Topographic representation of: Geneva (city); Topographic representation of: Lake Geneva; Topographic representation of: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc; Topographic representation of: Vevey; Topographic representation of: Wetterhorn
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: 1958,0712.3028.1-29

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