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Passage d'une Crevasse du Glacier de la Côte

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1958,0712.1844

• Title (object)

  • Passage d'une Crevasse du Glacier de la Côte

• Description

  A group of nine mounaineers climbing along a glacier and over a crevasse, with the help of a ladder, all carrying climbing equipment; within narrow wash border
  Etching with hand colouring

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Johann Philipp Linck
  • Published by: Johann Philipp Linck

• School/style

  • Swiss

• Date

  • 1800 (circa)

• Production place

  • Published in: Geneva
  • (Europe,Switzerland,Geneva (canton),Geneva (city))

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • hand-coloured
  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 473 millimetres (sheet)
  • Width: 381 millimetres (sheet)

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered with the title; "Dessiné par J. Ph. Linck, le jeune" and "Se vend chez l'Auteur à Genéve" and "[?] à la Bibliothéque Imperiale"

• Location

  Not on display (BH/FF10/Swiss Lloyd Collection Unmounted Imp)

• Subjects

  • glacier

• Associated places

  • Topographic representation of: Mont Blanc
  • (Europe,Mont Blanc)

• Acquisition name

  • Bequeathed by: Robert Wylie Lloyd

• 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 & Drawings

• Registration number

  1958,0712.1844

• Additional IDs

  • 340 (Lloyd Number)