Title
VUES REMARQUABLES des Montagnes de la Suisse.
Creator
Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
Publication details
[Amsterdam] : [J. Yntema and Rudolf Samuel Henzi], [1785]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 39.7 x 23.5 cm, on support 51.7 x 41.2 cm.
Description
Alleogory with two Swiss knights in 16thC costume presenting Minerva with some printed sheets at left, while three genii study scrolls and tablets at right. Mount annotated with dedication below image: 'Respectfully presented to The King by His Majesty's most devoted and humble Servant R. Hentzy'.
Place
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 Henzy'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 Wagner with a text by Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach in about 1776. The project was interrupted by Wagner's death in 1782 and continued in 1785 by Henzi and Yntema, who published a total of forty-two plates. The allegory is described by Michel Huber in his 'Catalogue raisonne_ du Cabinet d'Estampes de Feu Monsieur Winckler' (Leipzig, 1801): 'Frontispiece, ou_ se voit Minerve, accompagne_e de trois Ge_nies, accueillant deux anciens Helve_tiens qui lui pre_sentent des dessins' (no. 5016-2, p. 904).
Other persons
Monnet, Charles, 1732-1809?, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.