print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.976
- Title
- Object: Le Chateau de Chillon au bord du lac de Genêve
- Description
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View of the Chillon Castle in the centre, on the edge of Lake Geneva to the right; a sailing boat approaches the castle and another floats in the right hand foreground; a paddle-steamer is on the lake in the right hand distance and beyond it is another settlement on the far edge of the lake; to the left are looming mountain slopes, beyond which is a snowy mountain peak in the centre background; in the left hand foreground a stone wall lines a road on which a figure on horseback converses with two figures on foot.
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring.
- Production date
- 1818-1883 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 132 millimetres (image)
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Width: 187.50 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- 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
- 1958,0712.976
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1915