Title
VUE DE SCHADAU sur le Lac de Thun : De_die_ a_ S.A.S. Mgr. le Prince d'Orange et de Nassau Stathouder Hereditaire et Cap.e General des Provinces Unies Par son tre_s humble et tre_s Obeissant Serviteur R. Hentzi Gouv.r des Pages. / Clement del. ; Descourtis sculp.t.
Creator
Descourtis, Charles-Melchior, 1753-1820, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[Paris] : Se vend chez Mr Graff, rue des 2 Portes St. Sauveur et chez Mr Descourtis Graveur rue des Grands Degre_s, No. 26. Imp. par Gayant, [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 29.6 x 40 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Three men, one of them holding a telescope, stand on a road contemplating the view in the foreground, with a shepherd playing the flute under a tree next to his flock and a ferry being loaded by Lake Thun beyond, and palace surrounded by gardens, village and mountains in the background.
Place
Thun, Lake of (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 William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau.
Other persons
Kleemann, Johann Wolfgang, 1731-1782, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.