print
- Museum number
- 2015,7036.1
- Description
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Landscape with a large oak tree and a pastoral couple in the foreground, a view of a lake and an Italianate rotonda towards mountains in the distance. 1795
Etching
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 680 millimetres (sheet)
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Height: 562 millimetres
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Width: 440 millimetres
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Width: 518 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Johann Heinrich Meyer is best known for his topographical views of the Swiss Alps, both in pure watercolour and series of elaborately hand-coloured etchings. This impressive sheet is one of a pair made in the earlier pastoral tradition of Salomon Gessner, but on a much grander scale.
See 'Catalogue d'estampes et dessins qui se trouvent chez Henri et Jean Henri Fuesli à Zurich', Zurich 1795, p. 26, "Par Henri Meyer./ Paysage, avec un grand chêne au milieu. 6"
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018-2019, Oct 4 – 27 Jan, London, BM G90, Recent Acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker
- Acquisition date
- 2015
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired at the Royal Academy print fair 2015
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2015,7036.1
