album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3099.1-29
Title: Object: Ansichten von der Schweiz
Description: Album containing 29 unnumbered views of Switzerland; bound in blue paper-covered boards, with gold stamping, and the title on the spine Aquatints, with etching, and hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Vue de Neuchatel prise au Rocher.' 2) 'Vue d'une partie de la ville de Neuchatel depuis le môle.' 3) 'Vue de la place du marché à Neuchatel.' 4) 'Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville à Neuchatel.' 5) 'Vue de Neuchatel prise de la route neuve.' 6) 'Fête des Armourins à Neuchatel.' 7) 'Vue de Colombier.' 8) 'Vue de Montmirail.' 9) 'Vue d'Yverdon.' 10) 'Moulins au dessous du Saut du Doubs.' 11) 'Vue du Saut du Doubs.' 12) 'Vue sur le Doubs près du Saut.' 13) 'Vue du Locle.' 14) 'La Chaux-de-fonds.' 15) 'Ile de St. Pierre sur le lac de Bienne.' 16) 'Vue de Morat.' 17) 'Vue de Berne.' 18) 'La chasse aux Chamois et vue du Wetterhorn et Wellhorn.' 19) 'Vue de Frybourg.' 20) 'Lausanne.' 21) 'Pierre-Pertuis.' 22) 'Vue sur le Lac de Lowerz. Ansicht des Lowerzer Sees.' 23) 'Locarno, au Canton de Tessin. Luggarus, im Canton Tessin.' 24) 'Le glacier supérieur du Grindelwald' 25) 'Le Schmadribach' 26) 'Le Schmadribach et le Breithorn près de Trachsellauinen' 27) 'La vallée d'Engelberg' 28) 'Le Pont de fil de fer des Paquis à Genève.' 29) 'Le Palais Eynard à Genève.'
Producer name: Print made by: Johann Hürlimann; Print made by: Johann Jakob Sperli the Elder; Print made by: Conrad Caspar Rordorf; Print made by: R Iselin; Print made by: Matthäus Kern; Print made by: Samuel Biermann; Print made by: Friedrich Salathé; After: Jean Henri Baumann; After: Frederick Jeanneret; After: Jean-Baptiste Bonjour; After: Samuel Rösel; After: Gabriel Lory le père; After: Achilles Benz; After: Jean Dubois; Published by: Jeanneret & Baumann; Published by: Trachsler; Published by: Birmann & Fils
School/style
Production date: 1825-1835 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Neuchâtel (town)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 195 millimetres (album); Height: 115 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 170 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This album is a collection of Swiss views published by Jeanneret & Baumann in Neuchatel (nos. 1-21), Trachsler in Zurich (nos. 22-23) and Birmann & Fils in Basel (nos. 24-29).
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Neuchâtel (town); Topographic representation of: Colombier; Topographic representation of: Yverdon; Topographic representation of: Doubs; Topographic representation of: Jura (Switzerland); Topographic representation of: Le Locle; Topographic representation of: La Chaux-de-Fonds; Topographic representation of: Bieler See; Topographic representation of: Murten; Topographic representation of: Bern (city); Topographic representation of: Wetterhorn; Topographic representation of: Fribourg (town); Topographic representation of: Lausanne; Topographic representation of: Basel-Landschaft; Topographic representation of: Lauerzer See; Topographic representation of: Locarno; Topographic representation of: Grindelwald; Topographic representation of: Berner Alpen; Topographic representation of: Engelberg; Topographic representation of: 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: 1958,0712.3099.1-29

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