Title
VUE DE THUN DU CO_TE_ DU MIDI : De_die_ a_ S. A. Royale M.e F. Sophie Wilhelmine Princesse d'Orange et de Nassau Ne_e Princesse de Prusse Par son tre_s humble et tre_s respetueux Serviteur R. Hentzi. / Wolff pinx.t ; Sr 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 2 Portes St. Sauveur chez Mr. Graff A.P.D.R.], [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 29 x 33.5 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
Figures standing on a wooden bridge over the River Aar in the foreground, with view of the city of Thun 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 Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange-Nassau.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.