book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3098.1-22
Title: Object: Les costumes Suisses les plus élégantes usités dans les 22 cantons
Description: Book containing 22 unnumbered prints of women wearing Swiss costumes, with a title-page; bound in red paper-covered boards, with gold stamping, and a label with the title on the front cover, Bern Lithographs, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Zuric.' 2) 'Gougisberg.' 3) 'Berne.' 4) 'Lucerne.' 5) 'Ury.' 6) 'Schwitz.' 7) 'Unterwalde.' 8) 'Zoug.' 9) 'Fribourg.' 10) 'Soleure.' 11) 'Bale.' 12) 'Schaffhouse.' 13) 'Appenzell.' 14) 'St. Gall.' 15) 'Grison.' 16) 'Argovie.' 17) 'Thurgovie.' 18) 'Tessin' 19) 'Vaud.' 20) 'Vallais.' 21) 'Neuchâtel' 22) 'Genève.'
Producer name: Print made by: Marcus Dinkel; After: Marcus Dinkel; Published by: Marcus Dinkel
School/style
Production date: 1820 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Bern (city)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 120 millimetres (approx. size of image); Height: 240 millimetres (book); Width: 100 millimetres; Width: 185 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Associated with: Zürich (canton); Associated with: Bern (canton); Associated with: Lucerne (canton); Associated with: Uri; Associated with: Schwyz (canton); Associated with: Nidwalden; Associated with: Zug (canton); Associated with: Fribourg (canton); Associated with: Solothurn; Associated with: Basel-Stadt; Associated with: Basel-Landschaft; Associated with: Schaffhausen (canton); Associated with: Appenzell-Inner Rhoden; Associated with: Appenzell-Ausser Rhoden; Associated with: St Gallen (canton); Associated with: Graubünden; Associated with: Aargau; Associated with: Thurgau; Associated with: Ticino; Associated with: Vaud; Associated with: Valais; Associated with: Neuchâtel (canton); Associated with: Geneva (canton)
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: 1958,0712.3098.1-22

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