album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3040.1-24
Title: Object: Costumes Suisses (no title)
Description: Album containing 24 inlaid and numbered prints of figures wearing Swiss costumes, with a table of contents and explanation of the individual prints throughout; bound in orange paper-covered boards with gold stamping and the title on the front cover Etchings, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Zuric' 2) 'Berne' 3) 'Berne' 4) 'Gouggisberg' 5) 'Oberhasle' 6) 'Lucerne' 7) 'Ury' 8) 'Schwyz' 9) 'Unterwalden' 10) 'Zug' 11) 'Glaris' 12) 'Bâle' 13) 'Fribourg' 14) 'Frybourg' 15) 'Soleure' 16) 'Schaffhausen' 17) 'Appenzell' 18) 'St: Galle' 19) 'Grison' 20) 'Argovie' 21) 'Thourgovie' 22) 'Tessin' 23) 'Pay de Veaud' 24) 'Wallais'
Producer name: Print made by: J L Lang; After: Georg Volmar; Published by: J L Lang
School/style
Production date: 1819
Production place: Published in: Bern (city)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 270 millimetres (album); Height: 210 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 160 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: According to the table of contents, the order of the prints is randomly. A title-page is missing. The information about the date, the publisher and the publication place is given according to Lonchamp.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Associated with: Bern (canton); Associated with: Lucerne (canton); Associated with: Uri; Associated with: Schwyz (canton); Associated with: Nidwalden; Associated with: Zug (canton); Associated with: Glarus (canton); Associated with: Basel-Stadt; Associated with: Basel-Landschaft; Associated with: Fribourg (canton); Associated with: Solothurn; Associated with: Schaffhausen (canton); Associated with: Appenzell-Inner Rhoden; Associated with: Appenzell-Ausser Rhoden; Associated with: St Gallen (canton); Associated with: Graubünden; Associated with: Aargau; Associated with: Thurgau; Associated with: Ticino; Associated with: Vaud; Associated with: Valais
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: 1958,0712.3040.1-24

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