Print Description
Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 30.8 x 22.7 cm (12.13 x 8.94 inch). Image size: 14.4 x 11.6 cm. (5.67 x 4.57 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, soiling and creasing. Remains of tape from attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
SWITZERLAND, VERWALDST?TTERSSEE, LAKE LUCERNE, FISHERMAN, ALPINE LANDSCAPE, LUDWIG HESS, 18TH CENTURY ETCHING | PCO-C49-15
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in Zurich, Switzerland, 1798.
Reference: L.K.F. 16.2; JJL L 4243.
Biography engraver: Ludwig Hess (1760-1800) was a Swiss landscape artist and engraver from Zurich. Most of his early works were Alpine landscapes, notably of Mont Blanc, Rutli and the Tellskapelle and he was an early practitioner of topography. After 1798, he also made copper engravings.
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