Title
VUE DE INTERLAKEN sur le Lac de Brienz : De_die_ a_ S.A.S. Guillaume Frederick Prince Hereditaire d'Orange et de Nassau Par son tre_s humble et tre_s Obeissant Serviteur Hentzi. / Wolf pinx.t ; Descourtis sculp.t.
Creator
Descourtis, Charles-Melchior, 1753-1820, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[Paris] : Se vend chez Mr Graff, rue des Deux Portes St. Sauveur et chez Mr Descourtis, rue des Grands Degre_s, No. 26. Imprime_ par Gayant le jeune, [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 28.7 x 33.7 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Figures on three boats fishing on Lake Brienz in the foreground, with view of Interlaken and mountains in the background.
Place
Interlaken (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 Prince Wilhelm Friedrich of Orange-Nassau.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.