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DIKENMANN, R.
Die Schweizer Reise.
Extremely scarce. Swiss trip of an international group of young people from the upper class, all of whom were students of the Messian Institute in Neuwied. Dikenmann was a watercolor painter. After working for Orell Füssli around 1820, he founded his own copperplate and steel engraving publishing house (colored Swiss views and costume paintings). Member of the Dikenmann family of artists. Father of Anna, Johann Caspar, Johann-Rudolf and Louise Dikenmann, who all worked in the family business.
- Published
- Zurich: 1847.
- References
- Not in Abbey, Bobins 476.
- Plates
- 35
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Zurich: 1847.
- Ref
- 5265
12mo, (4.25 x 6 inches), 34 (and a frontispiece) hand-coloured lithographed plates by Dikenmann, contemporary full red calf; gilt in rule and letters direct to boards and spine. All edges gilt, coloured endpapers. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. La Caverne du Mont St. Gotthard dit trou d'Ury. 2. Basle prise du bastion St. Jean. 3. Neuchatel. 4. Lausanne vers le lac de Geneve. 5. Vue d'Ouchi et de Lausanne au lac de Geneve. 6. St. Martin vers le Mont Lanc dans la vallee de Sallenche. 7. Montanverte. Chamounix. 8. Sitten-Sion, Capitale du Canton de Valais. 9. Das Leuker Bad. Les Bains de Louche. 10. Berne vue vers le nouveau pont de Nydeek. 11. Thun. 12. Staubbach. 13. Wengernalp vers la Jungfrau Monche et Eiger. 14. Les Glaciers de Grindelwald. 15. Glacier de Rosenlauy et les monts Well & Wetterhorn. 16. Rosenlaui Bad. 17. Chute superieur du Reichenbach. 18. Chute de l 'Aar a la Handeek. 19. Grimsel. 20. Vue du Glacier du Rhone. 21. Furkapass. 22. Hospenthal. 23. Le Pont du Diable route de St. Gotthard. 24. Altorf, Chef-lieu du Canton d'Ury. 25. Fluelen, vers le Bristenstock. 26. La Chappelle de Guillaume Tell au luc des IV Cantons. 27. Luzerne vers le mont Pilate. 28. Vue du Monument a Luzerne erige a la memoire des Suisses du 10 Aout 1792. 29. Weggis. 30. L'Auberge sur le Righi-Koulm. 31. Rigi Staffel. 32. La Chapelle de Ntre D. aux Neiges et les auberges sur le Righi. 33. Zoug vers le Righi et le Pilate. 34. Zurich. 35. Zurich. Vue de pont neuf, vers les montagnes.
