Title
VUE DE RINKENBERG sur le Lac de Brienz : De_die_ a_ son Ex le Comte J. G. de Rechteren Par son tre_s humble et tre_s Obeissant Serviteur Hentzi. / Wolff pinx.t ; Descourtis sculp.t.
Creator
Descourtis, Charles-Melchior, 1753-1820, printmaker.
Publication details
[Paris] : [Se vend a_ Paris, Rue des deux Portes St. Sauveur chez Mr. Graff], [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 29.6 x 33.5 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Two boats on Lake Brienz in the foreground, with watermill on its shores, view of Ringgenberg church, castle and village beyond, and mountains in the background.
Place
Ringgenberg (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 Count Jacob Godfried van Rechteren.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.