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Voyage pittoresque au Lac de Come. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1822. - WETZEL, Johann Jakob. Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs Majeur et de Lugano. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1823.
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WETZEL, Johann Jakob (1781-1834)
Voyage pittoresque au Lac de Come. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1822. - WETZEL, Johann Jakob. Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs Majeur et de Lugano. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1823.
Extra-illustrated copy containing fine aquatint views of Italian and Swiss lakes by the leading Swiss landscape artist, Johann Jakob Wetzel. This copy contains the complete series of views of Lakes Como, Maggiore and Lugano, and is extra-illustrated with an additional 12 plates from his views of other lakes, including Lakes Garda, Luzern, Geneva, plus Heinrich Keller’s atmospheric plate of the spectacular Devil’s Bridge on the St. Gotthard route before its destruction in 1799 in a battle between Russian and French troops as the final plate. Bobins II, 505; Lonchamp 3175 and cf 3179.
2 works in one, folio (419 x 280mm). Each work with 15 aquatint plates by Hegi or Rordorf after Wetzel, extra-illustrated with 12 aquatint plates after Wetzel from his Voyage pittoresque au Lac Geneve (1820), …au Lac de Garda (1824) and …aux Lacs de … Luzern (1827) and a single hand-coloured aquatint by Heinrich Keller (1778-1862) of ‘Pont du Diable sur le Mont St. Gottard’, plates watermarked ‘J. Whatman, Turkey Mills’ with date ‘1821’ on one, all plates coloured by a contemporary hand (text leaves with light spotting, light dampstain in a few upper margins). 19th-century red morocco gilt, wide roll-tool borders on sides, spine elaborately tooled and with title labels, gilt edges (faded, a little worn and scuffed). Provenance: Averil Beaumont (1841-1934, Yorks.; gift inscription from [her older sister] Diane Beaumont, Jan. 1860).
Voyage pittoresque au Lac de Come. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1822. - WETZEL, Johann Jakob. Voyage pittoresque aux Lacs Majeur et de Lugano. Zurich: Orell & Fussli, 1823.
Extra-illustrated copy containing fine aquatint views of Italian and Swiss lakes by the leading Swiss landscape artist, Johann Jakob Wetzel. This copy contains the complete series of views of Lakes Como, Maggiore and Lugano, and is extra-illustrated with an additional 12 plates from his views of other lakes, including Lakes Garda, Luzern, Geneva, plus Heinrich Keller’s atmospheric plate of the spectacular Devil’s Bridge on the St. Gotthard route before its destruction in 1799 in a battle between Russian and French troops as the final plate. Bobins II, 505; Lonchamp 3175 and cf 3179.
2 works in one, folio (419 x 280mm). Each work with 15 aquatint plates by Hegi or Rordorf after Wetzel, extra-illustrated with 12 aquatint plates after Wetzel from his Voyage pittoresque au Lac Geneve (1820), …au Lac de Garda (1824) and …aux Lacs de … Luzern (1827) and a single hand-coloured aquatint by Heinrich Keller (1778-1862) of ‘Pont du Diable sur le Mont St. Gottard’, plates watermarked ‘J. Whatman, Turkey Mills’ with date ‘1821’ on one, all plates coloured by a contemporary hand (text leaves with light spotting, light dampstain in a few upper margins). 19th-century red morocco gilt, wide roll-tool borders on sides, spine elaborately tooled and with title labels, gilt edges (faded, a little worn and scuffed). Provenance: Averil Beaumont (1841-1934, Yorks.; gift inscription from [her older sister] Diane Beaumont, Jan. 1860).
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