book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3085.1-6
Title: Object: Collection de six vues de la Suisse
Description: Book containing 6 inlaid and unnumbered views of Switzerland, with a title-page; half-bound in red leather and green covers with a gold stamped vignette on the front cover, Basel, 1802 Etchings, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Lac de Brienz.' 2) 'Staubbach.' 3) 'Glacier du Grindelwald.' 4) 'Reichenbach.' 5) 'Lac des Quatre Cantons.' 6) 'Lac de Lauwerz.'
Producer name: After: Peter Birmann; Print made by: Christian Friedrich Reinermann; Published by: Johann Decker
School/style
Production date: 1802
Production place: Published in: Basel
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 105 millimetres (approx. size of image); Height: 225 millimetres (book); Width: 165 millimetres; Width: 296 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Brienzer See; Topographic representation of: Staubbach Falls; Topographic representation of: Grindelwald; Topographic representation of: Reichenbach Fall; Topographic representation of: Lake Lucerne; Topographic representation of: Lauerzer See
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: 1958,0712.3085.1-6

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