Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Siegfried, Heinrich, 1814-1889

Title:

Panorama du Mont Righi [graphic] / gravé par H. Siegfried.

Edition:

Edition originale.

Published / Created:

Zürich : Chez R. Dickenman, peintre, Rindermarkt No. 353, [ca. 1830]

Physical Description:

1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; 16 x 71 cm, accordion folded to 16 x 10 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DQ841.R5 D55 1830
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Includes names of distant peaks as well as cantons, towns, and lakes.

Title and imprint from foot of panorama.

Date of publication from Abbey.

"Les numéros indigent la hauteur au dessus du lac des IV cantons, qui est situé 1350 au dessus de la mer."

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 521

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's original blue boards, with printed title label. Armorial bookplate: Ivor A.B. Ferguson.

Subject Terms:

Rigi Mountain (Switzerland) -- Pictorial works. | Alps, Swiss (Switzerland) -- Pictorial works. | Mountains -- Switzerland -- Pictorial works. | Ferguson, Ivor A.B. -- Bookplate.

Form/Genre:

Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1830. | Accordion fold format (Binding) | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Panoramas -- Switzerland -- Rigi Mountain.

Contributors:

Dikenmann, R. (Rudolf), 1793–1883, publisher.