Title
LA GROSSE PIERRE SUR LE GLACIER DE VORDERAAR Canton de Berne Province d'Oberhasli : Dedie_e a_ Monsieur le Comte d'Affry Lieutenant General des Arme_es du Roy Grand Croix de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St Louis Colonel des Gardes Suisses de Sa Majeste_ Membre Honoraire des Acade_mies de Peinture, Sculpture & Architecture &c. Par son tre_s humble & tre_s Obe_issant Serviteur Wagner. / C. Wolf pinx. ; Termine_ par f. Janinet ; Grave_ sous la direction de Monsieur VERNET, Peintre du Roi, et Conseiller de son Acade_mie Royalle de Peinture et Sculpture ; Ecrit par L.s Aubert.
Creator
Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
Publication details
a_ Paris : chez Wagner, Place Maubert, Ho_tel de la Limace, vis a_ vis la rue des trois Portes A.P.D.R., [between 1776 and 1782]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 28.5 x 32.6 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Four travellers stand in front of a glacier table, with mountains in the background. Engraved with number 20, but bound as no. 19.
Place
Haslital (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 blac k 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). An oil sketch on board for the original painting by Wolf entitled 'Der grosse Steintisch auf dem Lauteraargletscher' is currently in the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau (see Wismer, op. cit., cat. no. 31, pp. 68, 178 and W. Raeber, Caspar Wolf 1735-1783. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Frankfurt a.M., Salzburg and Munich, 1979, cat. no. 210). Dedication contains coat of arms of Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.