book;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3070.1-25
- Title
- Object: Souvenirs de la Vallée de Chamonix, par Samuel Birmann.
- Description
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Book containing 25 numbered views of France and Switzerland, with a title-page, table of contents, a preface by Samuel Birmann, explanation of the individual prints throughout and 2 outline etchings with numbered references to points of interest that relate to a key; half-bound in green leather and marbled paper, with a label with the title in gold stamping on the spine, Basel
Aquatints, with etching, on chine collé, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Gorge de Cluse'
2) 'Cascade de l'Arpenaz'
3) 'Environs de Sallenche'
4) 'Four Savoyard'
5) 'Habitation Savoyarde'
6) 'Le Montblanc vu de Sallenche'
7) 'Les Bains de St. Gervais'
8) 'La Cascade de Bonnant derrière les Bains de St. Gervais'
9) 'Cascade de Chède'
10) 'Lac de Chède'
11) 'Le Montblanc vu de Servoz'
12) 'Bergères à l'Oratoire'
13) 'Environs de Servoz'
14) 'Aux Montées.'
15) 'Glacier des Bossons.'
16) 'Eglise de Chamonix.'
17) 'Le Prieuré et le Montblanc'
18) 'La Mer de Glace vue du Montanvert'
19) 'Vue prise du Jardin.'
20) 'Source de l'Arveron'
21) 'Glacier des Bois'
22) 'À la Flégère'
23) 'Le Col de Balme vu de la Vallée d'Argentiére'
24) 'Eglise d'Argentière'
25) 'Le Chamonix vu du Col de Balme'
- Production date
- 1826 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 485 millimetres (book)
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Width: 220 millimetres
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Width: 344 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The publication date is not printed on the title-page. However, Lonchamp's suggestion of 1826 as year of publication seems reasonable since the preface by Samuel Birmann is dated 'Basle, Mai 1826.'.
The book included a panorama of Breven which is actually missing in the present example. For another example including the panorama, see P&D, 1958,0712.3069 (1-26). For a hand-coloured set, see P&D, 1958,0712.2981 (1-26).
- 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
- 1958,0712.3070.1-25