book;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3074.1-15
- Title
- Object: Voyage pittoresque au lac de Come.
- Description
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Book containing 15 unnumbered views of Italy, with a title-page, table of contents, 9 pages of introductory text and explanation of the individual prints throughout; originally bound in red paper-covered boards, with the title in gold stamping on the front (the paper has now become separated and is placed in the front of the book), protected in a modern red binding, Zurich, 1822
Aquatints, with etching, and hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Ripa.'
2) 'Domaso.'
3) 'Gravedona.'
4) 'Musso.'
5) 'Menaggio.'
6) 'Sur la Hauteur de Menaggio vers Lecco.'
7) 'Villa Somariva vis à vis Bellaggio.'
8) 'Villa Melzi et Bellaggio.'
9) 'Villa Serbelloni.'
10) 'Isola St. Giovanni.'
11) 'Villa Pliniana.'
12) 'Le Faubourg de Vico à Come.'
13) 'Palazzo al Ulmo vers Torno.'
14) 'Como.'
15) 'Lecco.'
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 395 millimetres (book)
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Width: 275 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The first edition of this publication appeared in 1819. The three examples kept in the Lloyd collection belong all to the second edition published in 1822, see also 1958,0712.2988 (1-15) and 1958,0712.3072 (1-15).
- 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
- 1958,0712.3074.1-15