Title
VUE GE_NE_RALE DES ALPES ET GLACIERES Prise du Chateau de Worb : De_die_ a_ S. A. Royale Frederic Guillaume Prince here_ditaire de Prusse Par son tre_s humble et tre_s respetueux Serviteur R. Hentzi. / Clement pinx.t ; Descourtis sculp.t.
Creator
Descourtis, Charles-Melchior, 1753-1820, printmaker.
Publication details
[Paris] : Se vend a_ Paris rue des 2 Portes St. Sauveur chez Mr. Graff. Imprime_ par Gayant le jeune, [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 29.7 x 39.7 cm, on support 41 x 51.7 cm.
Description
View of the grounds of Neuworb with gardeners and figures sitting on benches around an ornamental fountain in the foreground, the old Worb Castle on top of a hill at right surrounded by forests and fields beyond, and Alps in the background.
Place
Worb (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 Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia.
Other persons
Kleemann, Johann Wolfgang, 1731-1782, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.