album; print; drawing

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Object Type: album; print; drawing
Museum number: 1958,0712.3066.1-22
Title: Object: A collection of various Swiss views from different artists
Description: Album containing 22 unnumbered views of Switzerland; half-bound in brown leather and marbled paper Etchings, with aquatint, and hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Panten Brugg Paysage sur le Linth - Canton Glarus.' 2) 'Martins-Brugg Paysage sur le Goldach - pres de la Ville du St. Gall.' 3) 'Vue de St. Maurice.' 4) 'Contre le Levant Les Cataractes de Schaffhouse. à Zurich Chez H. Bleuler' 5) 'Stansstaad, prés du Lac de Lucerne. se vend a Zurich, chéz M: Pfenninger.' 6) 'Vue de la Porte de Sax.' 7) 'Kraezeren-Brugg, Paysage sur le Sitter pres de la Ville de St. Gall' 8) 'Das Treffen bei Adschud in der Moldau d. 14.ten 8br. 1788.' 9) 'Prospect von Oczakow und Kinburn' 10) 'Prospect von Belgrad und Semlin' 11) 'Prospect der Festung Choczim' 12) 'Prospect der Festung Novi in Türckisch Croatien' 13) 'Prospect von Kayserlich und Türkisch Dubicza' 14) 'Vue de Nidau, et du Lac de Bienne.' 15) 'Vue de Genève pris depuis Saconex en Savoie. Fait par Carl Hackert. 1782.' 16) 'Vûe de Neufchatel du Côté du levant.' a fold-out view, 350 x 550 mm 17) 'Vue du Mont-blanc, et une partie de Genêve.' 18) 'Sand-Alp contre le Glacier du Spiz-Alp - Canton Glarus.' 19) 'Vue de Guntlenau, comme une partie du Monument de Salomon Gessner au Canton de Glarus.' 20) 'Zwey-Bruggen Paysage sur le Sitter Canton Appenzell.' 21) 'Vedute dell'ingresso della Grotta di Pozzuoli.' (bodycolour) 22) 'See-Alp-See, avec une parthie de Glacier du Sentis dessine pres le Vacherie appelle Aescher - Canton Appenzell.'
Producer name: Print made by: Johann Heinrich Bleuler; Print made by: Heinrich Thomann; Print made by: Jean Antoine Linck; Print made by: Carl Schütz; Print made by: Carl Guttenberg; Print made by: Caspar Wyss; After: Johann Heinrich Bleuler; After: Heinrich Thomann; After: Carl Schütz; After: Francesco Giuseppe Casanova; After: Carl Ludwig Hackert; After: Ludwig Hess; Published by: Johann Heinrich Bleuler; Published by: Heinrich Thomann; Published by: Matthias Pfenninger; Published by: Christian von Mechel; Published by: J Burgi; Published by: Carl Ludwig Hackert; Published by: Jean Antoine Linck; Drawn by: Anonymous
School/style: Swiss; German
Production date: 1766-1794 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Zürich (city); Published in: Basel; Published in: Bern (city); Published in: Geneva (canton)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured; drawn
Dimensions: Height: 485 millimetres (album); Height: 285 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 380 millimetres; Width: 425 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For the drawing (no. 21) see also 1958,0712.3066.21.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Glarus (canton); Topographic representation of: St Gallen (canton); Topographic representation of: Valais; Topographic representation of: Rheinfall; Topographic representation of: Stansstad; Topographic representation of: Haute-Savoie; Topographic representation of: Romania; Topographic representation of: Belgrade; Topographic representation of: Semlin (Belgrade); Topographic representation of: Chotin; Topographic representation of: Novi Zrin; Topographic representation of: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Topographic representation of: Nidau; Topographic representation of: Bieler See; Topographic representation of: Geneva (city); Topographic representation of: Lake Geneva; Topographic representation of: Neuchâtel (town); Topographic representation of: Mont Blanc; Topographic representation of: Appenzell-Inner Rhoden; Topographic representation of: Pozzuoli
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: 1958,0712.3066.1-22

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