Title
VILLE DE THUN DU CO_TE_ DE L'OCCIDENT : De_die_ a_ S. A. S. Madame Louise Princesse d'Orange et de Nassau Par son tre_s humble et tre_s Obeissant Serviteur Hentzi. / 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 a_ Paris, Rue des deux Portes St. Sauveur], [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 29 x 33.4 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Two young shepherds rest sitting on a rock by a vineyard in the foreground, watching their flock graze on the fields beyond, with view of Thun, castle, River Aar and mountains in the background.
Place
Thun (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). Dedication contains coat of arms of Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.