album;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3115.1-24
- Title
- Object: Vues de la Suisse
- Description
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Album containing 24 numbered views of Switzerland, with a title-page; bound in red cloth-covered boards, with blind stamping, and the title in gold stamping on the front cover, Zurich
Etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Friedrichshafen au Lac de Constance.'
2) 'Chûte du Rhin.'
3) 'Zurich prise depuis la Weid.'
4) 'Zurich depuis l'hôtel de l'Epée.'
5) 'Zurich vers l'Hôtel Bellevûe et la Couronne.'
6) 'Jmmensee au bord du lac de Zoug.'
7) 'Luzerne.'
8) 'Les Bains froids sur le Righi.'
9) 'Rigi-Staffel.'
10) 'Rigi-Kulm.'
11) 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell.'
12) 'Grutli au lac des IV Cantons.'
13) 'Fluelen'
14) 'Staubbach dans la vallée de Lauterbrunnen, Oberlande Bernoise.'
15) 'Brienz.'
16) 'Les Bains & le Glacier de Rosenlaui.'
17) 'Wengernalp.'
18) 'Fribourg. Vue de la basse Ville.'
19) 'Vevey'
20) 'Lausanne.'
21) 'Zermatt vers le Matterhorn, Ct. Valais.'
22) 'Pont du Diable, route du St. Gotthard.'
23) 'Giessbach.'
24) 'Reichenbach.'
- Production date
- 1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (album)
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Height: 75 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 110 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The numbering of the plates does not correspond to their sequence. Therefore, the album contains a selection of prints published by Locher in Zurich.
- 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
- 1958,0712.3115.1-24
