album; drawing; print

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Object Type: album; drawing; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3046.1-29
Title: Object: Costumes Suisses
Description: Album containing 24 drawings of Swiss costumes, a print of a Swiss farm house, and 4 views of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in 1794 and 1820; bound in green paper-covered boards Watercolour, pen and black ink, over graphite (1-24); etching, with hand-colouring (25); gouache (26-27); individually titled as follows: 1) 'Canton de Zug' 2) 'Canton d'Unterwalte' 3) 'Canton de Soleure' 4) 'Canton de Schahfhause' 5) 'Canton de Grison' 6) 'Canton Tesin' 7) 'Canton de Bâlé' 8) 'Canton d'Berne' 9) 'Canton de Wallais' 10) 'Canton d'Glarus' 11) 'Canton Turgowie' 12) 'Canton d'Argowie' 13) 'Canton de St: Gallen' 14) 'Canton d'Appenzel' 15) 'Canton d'Schwiz' 16) 'Canton Bais d'Veaud' 17) 'Canton d'Zurich' 18) 'Canton d'Uri' 19) 'Canton d'Freibourg' 20) 'Canton d'Berne' 21) 'Canton d'Lucerne' 22) 'Canton de Freibourg' 23) 'Canton d'Berne' 24) 'Canton d'Berne' 25) 'Maison de Paysan d'Ementhal, Canton de Berne.' 26) 'Eruzione de 9. Marzo 1820' 27) 'Eruzione del 1794' 28) 'Torre (...) dell'Eruzione del 1794' 29) 'Eruzione del 1794'
Producer name: Drawn by: Anonymous; After: Gottfried Mind; Published by: Johann Peter Lamy
School/style
Production date: 1794-1820 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Bern (city); Published in: Basel
Materials
Technique: drawn; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 284 millimetres (album); Height: 195 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 125 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects: swiss costume; farm building/farmyard; volcano
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Naples (city); Topographic representation of: Mount Vesuvius; Associated with: Zug (canton); Associated with: Nidwalden; Associated with: Solothurn; Associated with: Schaffhausen (canton); Associated with: Graubünden; Associated with: Ticino; Associated with: Basel-Stadt; Associated with: Basel-Landschaft; Associated with: Bern (canton); Associated with: Valais; Associated with: Glarus (canton); Associated with: Thurgau; Associated with: St Gallen (canton); Associated with: Appenzell-Inner Rhoden; Associated with: Appenzell-Ausser Rhoden; Associated with: Schwyz (canton); Associated with: Vaud; Associated with: Zürich (canton); Associated with: Uri; Associated with: Fribourg (canton); Associated with: Lucerne (canton)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1958
Acquisition notes: This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era. 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: 1958,0712.3046.1-29

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