print
- Museum number
- Ee,8.87
- Title
- Object: Bourg de Schweitz, en Suisse
- Description
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View of the town of Schwyz surrounded by mountains, the river in the foreground, a coat of arms at top.
Etching
- Production date
- 1723
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print is a copy after Johann Stridbeck's view of Schwyz, prepared as a book illustration for Johann Jacob Scheuchzer's Ouresiphoitēs Helveticus, published in Leyden in 1723. For a print from the original plate that had been copied, see 1898,0725.8.1397.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive Itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones (Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, 1723.)
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ee,8.87