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Ansicht der Stadt Sitten deren innern Theile und merkwürdigsten Umgebungen

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Date

1832-1833

Artist

Print after David Aloïs Schmid (1791-1861)

Collection

Image Link

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3273923

Additional Makers

Print maker - Caspar Burckhardt; Publisher - Johann Baptist Isenring

Description

View of Sion with two castles on mountains and a wall surrounding the town, cows on a meadow and peasants carrying water in the foreground; surrounded by 12 views with details of the town and its surroundings. Aquatint with hand colouring.

Inscription

Lettered above with the title and beneath each small image with a short description of what is shown in German and French; "A.D. Schmid del."; "C. Burckhardt sculp" and publisher's note "Zu haben bei dem Herausgeber I.B. Isenring in St. Gallen"

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

Sitten, Valais, Switzerland

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