portfolio;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3128.1-26
- Title
- Object: Costumes Suisses en mignature. Dessinés d'après nature avec texte explicatif par F. Meyer.
- Description
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Set of 25 unbound and unnumbered prints of figures wearing Swiss costumes, with a title-page with a vignette, and a frontispiece; kept together in a green portfolio, 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, inscribed within the image 'Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft MDCCCXXXV', and titled underneath 'Le grand Sceau de la Confédération Suisse.'
2) 'Zoug.'
3) 'Schwyz.'
4) 'Bâle.'
5) 'Schaffhausen.'
6) 'Genf.'
7) 'Appenzell.'
8) 'Vaud.'
9) 'Zurich.'
10) 'Berne, Oberhasli, et le Chasseur au Chamois.'
11) 'Aargovie.'
12) 'Neuchatel.'
13) 'Lucerne.'
14) 'St. Gall.'
15) 'Grison.'
16) 'Ury.'
17) 'Berne.'
18) 'Valais.'
19) 'Thurgovie.'
20) 'Glarus.'
21) 'Tessin.'
22) 'Unterwalden.'
23) 'Soleure.'
24) 'Berne, Oberhasli, et le Chasseur au Chamois.'
25) 'Berne.'
26) 'Tessin.'
- Production date
- 1835 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 170 millimetres (portfolio)
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Width: 130 millimetres
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Width: 135 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- 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
- 1958,0712.3128.1-26
