album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3060.1-25
Title: Object: Maisons de Paysan & Vues Suisses
Description: Album containing 25 inlaid and unnumbered views of Swiss peasant houses and Switzerland; half-bound in red leather and red paper-covered boards, with blind and gold stamping, and the title on the spine Etching, and aquatint, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Canton de Lucerne.' 2) 'Canton de Berne.' 3) 'Oberhasli.' 4) 'Vallée de Lauterbrunne.' 5) 'Canton d'Unterwalden.' 6) 'Canton d'Unterwalden.' 7) 'Canton d'Argovie.' 8) 'Canton des Grisons.' 9) 'Le Bain près du Reichenbach.' 10) 'Entlibuch Canton de Lucerne' 11) 'Canton de Basle.' 12) 'l'Hospice sur le Mont Grimsel.' 13) 'a Meyringen Canton de Berne' 14) 'Vue du Wetterhorn en descendant la Scheidech.' 15) 'Vallée d'Oberhasli' 16) 'á Oberhofen prés de Thoun Canton de Berne' 17) 'La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell au Lac des quatre Cantons' 18) 'Vue de Basle prise du rempart près de la porte de St. Jean.' 19) 'La Chûte du Rhin.' 20) 'Vue de Genève prise de Pregny.' 21) 'Vue de Genève et jonction du Rhone et de l'Arve, prise du Bois de la Bâtie.' 22) 'Vue de Genève, depuis Cologny avec la maison Diodati, ci-devant demeure de Lord Byron.' 23) 'Canton de Schwyz.' 24) 'Église de Brienz.' 25) 'Église d'Unterseen.'
Producer name: Print made by: Samuel Biermann; Print made by: Franz Hegi; Print made by: Friedrich Salathé; Print made by: Sigismond Himely; Print made by: Johann Hürlimann; After: Jean Dubois; After: Benedikt Banga; After: Samuel Biermann; Published by: Birmann & Huber
School/style
Production date: 1825 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Basel
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 325 millimetres (album); Height: 210 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 285 millimetres; Width: 455 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The publication date of this series is not known. But since it is listed in an advertisement of Birmann & Fils dated 1828 (see curator's comment 1958,0712.3106), a dating about 1825 seems to be a good approximation, considering the fact that Samuel Birmann joined his father's company in 1823.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: farm building/farmyard; landscape
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Lucerne (canton); Topographic representation of: Lauterbrunnen; Topographic representation of: Nidwalden; Topographic representation of: Aargau; Topographic representation of: Graubünden; Topographic representation of: Reichenbach; Topographic representation of: Basel-Landschaft; Topographic representation of: Grimsel-pass; Topographic representation of: Meiringen; Topographic representation of: Berner Alpen; Topographic representation of: Thuner See; Topographic representation of: Lake Lucerne; Topographic representation of: Basel; Topographic representation of: Rheinfall; Topographic representation of: Geneva (city); Topographic representation of: River Rhône; Topographic representation of: River Arve; Topographic representation of: Schwyz (canton); Topographic representation of: Unterseen
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: 1958,0712.3060.1-25

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