Title
L'HO_PITAL SUR LE GRIMSEL : Dedie_e a_ Monsieur Wagner Gouverneur d'Aigle Membre du Conseil Souverain de la Re_publique de Berne Par son Ami & Serviteur Wagner. / Wolfs pinxit ; f. Janinet sculpsit ; 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] : Se vend a_ Paris chez Wagner Place Maubert vis a_ vis la rue des 3 Portes. A.P.D.R., [between 1776 and 1782]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 27.7 x 32.8 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
An artist sits at work on a rock by Lake Grimsel while another man stands behind him smoking a pipe in the foreground, with Grimselsee beyond, hospice on the opposite shore and mountains in the background.
Place
Berne (Switzerland : Canton)
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). Dedication contains coat of arms of Johann Rudolf Wagner.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.