Lot no. 46
BESSON (Alexandre-Charles Besson) and PERIGNON (Alexis-Nicolas). View of the lake at the foot of the St Bernard hospice. Hospice du Saint-Bernard from the Val d'Aost side. Fall of the Vassorée. View of the first Ticino bridge. Paris, Clousier and Lamy, 1780-1788. 4 etchings, two 21.5 x 34 cm and two 16 x 24 cm (size of the images), one in colour, framed. Engravings taken from Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires de la Suisse by Laborde and Zurlauben. The first three views are by Alexandre-Charles Besson (1725-1809), and the last one, which is watercoloured, is by Alexis-Nicolas Perignon (1726-1782), painter to the King. 4 x 1.5 cm smudge and soiling in the margin of the View of the lake at the foot of the St Bernard hospice.
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