- Title
- PREMIERE CHU_TE DU STAUBBACH : Dans la Valle_e du Lauterbronnen. / Wolff pinx.t ; S Janinet sculp.t ; Grave_ sous la direction de Mr. VERNET, Peintre du Roi.
- Creator
- Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
- Publication details
- [Paris] : [Se vend Rue des 2 Portes St. Sauveur au Magazine de Dentelles Et Place Maubert, Ho_tel de la Limac_e A.P.D.R.], [1785]
- Physical details
- 1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 39.5 x 23.9 cm, on support 51.7 x 41 cm.
- Description
- Two travellers carrying walking sticks stand on a rock contemplating the Staubbach Falls, with a full rainbow forming above the rapids before them in the foreground and some goats seen behind the waterfall in the background.
- Place
- Lauterbrunnen (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 lettering on this plate differs from that on both the plate published by Wagner at Bern in about 1776-7 and the plate published by Henzi in 1785 (the latter is signed by Descourtis, instead of Janinet, and dedicated to J. Harris). The original painting by Wolf is currently in an Italian private collection (see Wismer, op. cit., cat. no. 45, pp. 83, 179 and W. Raeber, Caspar Wolf 1735-1783. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Frankfurt a.M., Salzburg and Munich, 1979, cat. no. 182).
- Other persons
- Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
- Shelfmark
- Maps 8.Tab.c.6.