Original steel engraving of a street in Martigny, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland: the wooden chalets with galleries and overhanging eaves, villagers with baskets and pitchers and, commanding the valley, the tower of La Bâtiaz castle on its crag. Signed below "Rouargue sc.".
Original steel engraving of a street in Martigny, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland: the wooden chalets with galleries and overhanging eaves, villagers with baskets and pitchers and, commanding the valley, the tower of La Bâtiaz castle on its crag. Signed below "Rouargue sc.".
The bilingual heading "Suiza / Suisse" and the two-language caption place the sheet in one of the great French illustrated collections of the second third of the 19th century circulated in Spain.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: After Samuel Prout, according to the old record
Engraver / lithographer: Rouargue
Date: 19th century
Dimensions: 5.2 x 7.9 in (13.3 x 20 cm)
Condition: Fair. Glued to paper; sheet with scattered foxing, denser in the margins; the image clean and finely printed.