Title
BACHALP AU HAUT DU GRINDELWALD : De_die_ a_ Madame la Baronne d'Erlach de Riggisberg Par son tre_s humble et tre_s Obeissant Serviteur Wagner. / C. Wolfs pinx. ; f Janine sculp. ; Grave_ sous la direction de Mr Vernet Peintre du Roi et Conseiller des Academies de Peinture et Sculpture.
Creator
Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
Publication details
[Paris] : [Abraham Wagner], [between 1776 and 1782]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 27.7 x 33 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
A man crosses a wooden bridge over a stream in the foreground, with view of the wooden cabins of the village of Grindelwald near a waterfall beyond, and Bernese Alps in the background.
Place
Grindelwald (Switzerland)
Additional information
Bound in a volume with title-page, preface by Albrecht von Haller, introduction, explanation of the plates (7 pages of text), frontispiece with Henzi's dedication to the King hand-written on the mount, and nineteen hand-coloured views framed by black lines and pasted on blue gilded mounts. The plates relate to a work first commissioned by publisher Abraham Wagner with text by Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach in about 1776. The project, consisting of forty-two plates, was interrupted by Wagner's death in 1782 and continued in 1785 by Henzi and Yntema (see B. Wismer et al., Caspar Wolf. Gipfelstu_rmer Zwischen Aufkla_rung und Romantik, exh. cat., Du_sseldorf, 2009, pp. 36-61). The original painting by Wolf entitled 'Die Bachalp oberhalb Grindelwald', is currently in a Swiss private collection (see Wismer, op. cit., cat. no. 41, pp. 79, 179 and W. Raeber, Caspar Wolf 1735-1783. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Frankfurt a.M., Salzburg and Munich, 1979, cat. no. 204). Dedication contains coat of arms of Baroness d'Erlach.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.