book;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3052.1-16
- Title
- Object: Viaggio Pittorico e Storico al Monte Spluga
- Description
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Book containing 16 unnumbered views of Italy and Switzerland, with a title-page, a preface by the editor, table of contents and explanation of the individual prints throughout; bound in green cloth-covered boards with gold stamping and the title on the spine, Milan
Etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Chiavenna'
2) 'S. Maria'
3) 'Campo Dolcino'
4) 'Cascata di Pianazzo'
5) 'Galleria presso Isola'
6) 'Casa di Ricovero'
7) 'La Dogana'
8) 'Spluga'
9) 'Piccola Via Mala'
10) 'Suffer'
11) 'Via Mala'
12) 'Galleria presso Tusis'
13) 'Tusis'
14) 'Castello di Razuns'
15) 'Reichenau'
16) 'Coira'
- Production date
- 1825 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 262 millimetres (book)
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Width: 215 millimetres
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Width: 359 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The publication date of this series is not known. Since the plates are printed on Whatman paper dated variously, 1819 and 1822, the series probably appeared somewhere about 1825.
- 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
- 1958,0712.3052.1-16
