pamphlet;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3104.1-4
- Title
- Object: Scènes tirées de l'Histoire des Suisses, gravées d'après les desseins de H. Lips, M. Usteri, L. Vogel et G. Volmar. Second Cahier.
- Description
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Pamphlet containing 4 unnumbered prints of themes of Swiss history, with a title-page, and explanation of the individual prints throughout; bound in paper covers, with the title printed on the front cover, Zurich, 1814
Aquatints, with etching, and hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Die Stauffacherin beredet ihren Mann sich mit seinen Freunden zu berathen.'
2) 'Der Schweizerbund im Grütli.'
3) 'Wilhelm Tell geht vor dem aufgepflanzten Hute Gesslers vorbey.'
4) 'Tell schiesst seinem Knaben den Apfel vom Kopfe.'
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 250 millimetres (pamphlet)
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Width: 135 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the second of six pamphlets that appeared from 1812 to 1822. For a volume containing all six parts of the German edition, see P&D, 1958,0712.3062 (1-24).
- 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
- 1958,0712.3104.1-4
