book;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3107.1-31
- Title
- Object: Les Costumes Suisses les plus origineaux et les plus intéressants dessinés d'après nature par R. H. Füssli.
- Description
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Book containing 29 prints of figures wearing Swiss costumes, with a frontispiece, and a title-page with a vignette; bound in red leather pasted with orange paper, with gold stamping, and the title on the front cover, Zurich
Aquatints, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) Frontispiece with the flags of the Swiss cantons arranged to a circle; the coat of arms of Switzerland within this circle which is inserted in a quadrat with gothic-like ornaments; the quadrat enclosed by 22 fields with figures wearing costumes in the colours of the coats of arms of the cantons; titled underneath 'Le Grand Sceau de la Confederation Suisse avec le costume des huissiers des 22 Cantons.'
2) Title-vignette with a farmer in a meadow with two goats, playing the alpenhorn, a cottage in the background
3) 'Zuric. Servante annonçant un nouveau né.'
4) 'Zürich.'
5) 'Berne. Chasseur de Chamois.'
6) 'Berne.'
7) 'Berne.'
8) 'Berne. Gouggisberg. Oberhasli.'
9) 'Berne. Batelière de Brienz.'
10) 'Lucerne.'
11) 'Lucerne.'
12) 'Ury.'
13) 'Schwyz. Faucheur des Alpes.'
14) 'Schwyz.'
15) 'Unterwalden.'
16) 'Glarus.'
17) 'Zoug.'
18) 'Fribourg.'
19) 'Soleure.'
20) 'Bâle.'
21) 'Schaffhouse.'
22) 'Appenzell. Vacher qui lance la pièrre. Exercice gymnastique favori des hommes de ce Canton.'
23) 'Appenzell.'
24) 'Thurgovie, St. Gall et Frontière allemande de la Suisse.'
25) 'Grisons.'
26) 'Aargovie, Fricthal et Forêt noire.'
27) 'Tessin.'
28) 'Païs de Vaud.'
29) 'Valais.'
30) 'Neuchatel.'
31) 'Genêve.'
- Production date
- 1830 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 242 millimetres (book)
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Width: 140 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For more information on this series, see curator's comment in P&D, 1958,0712.3061 (1-30).
- 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
- 1958,0712.3107.1-31
