album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1958,0712.3105.1-22
Title: Object: Swiss Costume
Description: Album containing 22 unnumbered prints of figures wearing Swiss costumes; half-bound in red leather and red cloth-covered boards, with gold stamping, and the title on the spine Etchings, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows: 1) 'Paysanne du Canton de Schwyz.' 2) 'Gouggisberg. Paysanne du Canton de Berne' 3) 'Freibourgoise de la partie française du Canton' 4) 'Freibourgoise de la partie allemande du Canton' 5) 'Appenzell, Paysanne du Canton de ce nom.' 6) 'Bernoise des environ de la Ville' 7) 'Bernoise, costume d'été en bonet.' 8) 'Paysanne du Canton de Zoug.' 9) 'Oberhasle Paysanne de l'Oberland bernois' 10) 'Soleuroise' 11) 'Argovienne, des environ de la ville d'Arau.' 12) 'Paysanne du Canton de Glarus.' 13) 'Tourgovienne.' 14) 'Paysanne du Canton de Basle.' 15) 'Paysanne du Canton de Wallais.' 16) 'Bernoise des environ de la Ville' 17) 'Paysanne du Canton de St. Gall.' 18) 'Paysanne du Canton de Zuric.' 19) 'Paysanne du Canton de Grison' 20) 'Paysanne du Canton de Lucerne.' 21) 'Ury. Paysanne du Canton de se nom' 22) 'Les trois Grâces du Gouggisberg. dans le Canton de Berne'
Producer name: After: Christoph Gottlieb Rohr; Print made by: Gottlieb Emanuel Wisard
School/style
Production date: 1813 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Bern (city)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 230 millimetres (album); Height: 200 millimetres (approx. size of image); Width: 140 millimetres; Width: 170 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The estimation of the date is based on a watermark. No. 22 is printed on Whatman paper dated 1813.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Schwyz (canton); Topographic representation of: Bern (canton); Topographic representation of: Fribourg (canton); Topographic representation of: Appenzell-Inner Rhoden; Topographic representation of: Appenzell-Ausser Rhoden; Topographic representation of: Zug (canton); Topographic representation of: Basel-Stadt; Topographic representation of: Basel-Landschaft; Topographic representation of: Solothurn; Topographic representation of: Aargau; Topographic representation of: Glarus (canton); Topographic representation of: Thurgau; Topographic representation of: Valais; Topographic representation of: St Gallen (canton); Topographic representation of: Zürich (canton); Topographic representation of: Graubünden; Topographic representation of: Lucerne (canton); Topographic representation of: Uri
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: 1958,0712.3105.1-22

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