album;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3038.1-21
- Title
- Object: Costumes modernes de la Suisse (no title)
- Description
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Album containing 21 numbered prints of figures wearing Swiss costumes; bound in green marbled paper-covered boards
Lithographs, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Canton de Lucerne.'
2) 'Canton de Soleure.'
3) 'Canton de Zug.'
4) 'Canton de Glarus.'
5) 'Canton des Grisons.'
6) 'Canton de Vaud.'
7) 'Canton du Valais.'
8) 'Canton du Tessin.'
9) 'Canton de Berne.'
10) 'Canton de Bâle.'
11) 'Toggenburg (Canton de St: Gall.)'
12) 'Canton de Zurich.'
13) 'Canton de Fribourg.'
14) 'Canton d'Appenzell.'
15) 'Canton de Neufchatel.'
16) 'Canton de Thurgovie.'
17) 'Canton d'Argovie.'
18) 'Canton de Schaffhouse.'
19) 'Canton d'Ury.'
20) 'Canton d'Unterwalden.'
21) 'Canton de Schwyz.'
- Production date
- 1825-1827 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 340 millimetres (album)
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Height: 26000 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 190 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The prints bound together in this album successively appeared from about 1825 to 1827, see 'Journal général d'annonces des oeuvres de musique, gravures, lithographies, publié en France et à l'etranger', Paris, David, 1825-1827 (reprint: Geneva, Minkoff, 1976-1977).
- 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
- 1958,0712.3038.1-21
