Lot 5704 - ibid134 Old Master Prints & Drawings - online only - Wednesday, 05. April 2023, 01.00 PM
LUCERNE - CANTON
After FRANZ LUDWIG PFYFFER VON WYER (1716–1802).
Plan perspectif d'une grande partie des cantons de Lucerne, d'Uri, de Schweitz, d'Under-Walden, de Zoug, et de Glaris, avec la frontiere de celui de Berne, / d'apres ledéssein géométrique fait par M.Pfiffer, lieutenant-général des armées du roi.
Pen and grey ink, watercolour and black crayon on laid paper with watermark: D&C. Blauw (see Churchill 194). The edging line in pen and brown ink.
Entitled and inscribed in pen and brown ink below the image: Dessiné d'aprés le Relief Geometrique fecit par M. Pfyffer, Lieutenant General des Armeés du Roi...
38 x 63 cm. Framed.
Probably after the engraving by Née and Masquelier after a drawing by Balthasar Duncker. From the original work: 'Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires de la Suisse' by B. F. Zurlauben and J.B. de Laborde (Paris, 1780–1786).-
The colours slightly faded, scattered foxing and with light wear. Verso remains of old mount. Rare.
The colours slightly faded, scattered foxing and with light wear. Verso remains of old mount. Rare.
CHF 700 / 900 | (€ 720 / 930)
Sold for CHF 563 (including buyer’s premium)
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