Title
SECONDE CHU_TE DU STAUBBACH Dans la Valle_e de Lauterbronnen . / C. Wolff pinx.t ; f. Janinet sculp.t ; Grave_ sous la direction de Mr VERNET Peintre du Roi.
Creator
Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
Publication details
A Paris : Rue des 2 Portes St Sauveur au Magazin de Dentelle et Place Maubert Ho_tel de la Limac_e. A.P.D.R. Imprime_ par Blin, [between 1776 and 1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 39.5 x 22.5 cm, on support 51.7 x 41 cm.
Description
A group of figures holding parasols walk up a hill towards the rainbow forming at the bottom of Staubbach falls, with canyon and mountains 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 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).
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.