Title
VUE DES RUINES DU CHATEAU DE PFEFFINGEN dans l'Eve_che_ de Ba_le.
Creator
Mechel, Christian von, 1737-1817, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
a_ Ba_le : chez Chr. de Mechel, [between 1785 and 1795]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured etching ; sheet 25.2 x 38.2 cm (trimmed below platemark)
Description
A shepherd looks after his flock among the ruins of Pfeffingen Castle in the foreground, with a man guiding a horse pulling a cart on a road behind and view of rolling hills and fields in the background.
Place
Basel-Landschaft (Switzerland : Canton)
Additional information
Mentioned in Johann Gottfried Ebel's 'Instructions pour un voyageur qui se propose de parcourir la Suisse' (Basel, 1795), vol. 1, p. 182.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.86.2.