Beautés de l'histoire de la Suisse, depuis l'époque de la confédération jusqu'à nos jours; [...] à l'usage de la jeunesse

Girard de Propiac, Catherine-Joseph Ferdinand · 1822 · Eymery · 7 pictures

A French illustrated history of Switzerland published in Paris in 1822 by Eymery, compiled by Girard de Propiac for young readers. Its engravings are fine black-and-white line plates, several printed sideways with captions along the margin, showing Alpine landscapes with waterfalls, cliffs and small figures, and one dramatic scene of a warrior before a stepped monument. A designer could take from them the tonal hatching of early nineteenth-century steel and copper engraving, and the way tiny figures give scale to mountain scenery.

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