SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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WETZEL, Johann Jakob.
Voyage pittoresque au Lac de Constance.

Published
Zurich: Chez Orell Fussli et Comp., 1830.
References
Not in Abbey; Bobins 1079.
Plates
15
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
25001-100000
Published
Zurich: Chez Orell Fussli et Comp., 1830.
Ref
5673

Folio (18 ½ x 13 ½ inches), 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by F. Hegi, quarter green calf, and green cloth portfolio folder. Uncut. Wetzel was among the most essential and masterly 18th and early 19th century Zurich vedutists. His good representations of landscapes are characteristic of the expansive views they offer and the intensity of the engravings. Coloured plates in order: 1. Constance. 2. Le Port de Constance. 3. Rommanshorn. 4. Arbon. 5. Rorschach. 6. Bregentz. 7. Lindau. 8. Langen-Argen. 9. Friedrichshafen. 10. Morsburg. 11. Ueberlingen. 12. Sernatinguen. 13. La Reichenau. 14. La Meinau. 15. Vue d'Arenenberg.