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Artist
- Name:
- Girardet, Karl
- Dates:
- 1813-1871
- Country:
- France, Switzerland
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Rebel, Jules
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Colección de láminas en color representando tipos de diversos países
- Author(s):
- Anonymous
- Publisher:
- Paris: Aubert et Cie, n.d. (after 1841)
Description
A Swiss girl wearing the traditional costume of Brienz stands looking down with one hand on her hip and the other resting on a wooden sort of bucket.
The caption reads in the original French: Jeune fille de Brienz — canton de Berne.
This book consists of an incomplete series of twenty hand-colored engravings sorted in no particular order, which were most likely published separately and bound into book form on behalf of their owner. This would explain why the usual markers of regular book publishing, such as publication date, colophon, etc., are missing.
The date we mention applies to the engravings (i.e. not to the binding) and is informed by the publisher’s address, which changed during the course of 1841. Although some plates don’t show any information about the publisher, we assume they all belong to the same series.
Keywords: 19th century, color, costume, female, portrait, reference book, Switzerland
