print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.761
- Title
- Object: Vûe de la Ville de Genève
- Description
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Landscape with a lake and a town; mountains in the background; people making hay in the foreground; within wash border.
Etching and aquatint with hand colouring
- Production date
- 1790 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 450 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 645 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Variation of a print etched by G. Lory in 1792, see: Marie-Louise Schaller, Annäherung an die Natur, Schweizer Kleinmeister in Bern 1750-1800, Bern 1990, Pg. 281 Nr.106.
It belongs to an edition by Birmann & Fils made between 1823 and c.1836.
- 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
- 1958,0712.761
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2209 (Lloyd Number)