Val St. Nicola. Switzerland. After J.D. Harding. Engraved by W. Wallis (1854)
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Title: Val St. Nicola. Switzerland.
Artist: after James Duffield Harding (1708-1863).
Engraver: William Wallis (1796-1885).
Description: Hand coloured engraving with evocative glimpse of the St. Nicholas Valley in southern Switzerland, painted in 1845 by James Duffield Harding, a fine English landscape painter, engraved by Wallis for The Art Journal.
The valley is shown from south to north, thus highlighting the majesty of the inaccessible snow-capped Bernese Alps. In the foreground, a girl tries to move a calf to let a woman go to the heart of the valley on the back of a horse loaded with baskets. Behind them is a poor wooden shack and a little further on the village chapel and some less modest houses. Matter Vispa Creek flows tumultuously to the right as it plunges into the mountains. At the top, in a commanding position, a castle is visible: it dominates the landscape, but it is dominated by the Alps.
Image size: 24,1,5 x19 cm.
Production date: 1854.
Condition: fine.
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Title: Val St. Nicola. Switzerland.
Artist: after James Duffield Harding (1708-1863).
Engraver: William Wallis (1796-1885).
Description: Hand coloured engraving with evocative glimpse of the St. Nicholas Valley in southern Switzerland, painted in 1845 by James Duffield Harding, a fine English landscape painter, engraved by Wallis for The Art Journal.
The valley is shown from south to north, thus highlighting the majesty of the inaccessible snow-capped Bernese Alps. In the foreground, a girl tries to move a calf to let a woman go to the heart of the valley on the back of a horse loaded with baskets. Behind them is a poor wooden shack and a little further on the village chapel and some less modest houses. Matter Vispa Creek flows tumultuously to the right as it plunges into the mountains. At the top, in a commanding position, a castle is visible: it dominates the landscape, but it is dominated by the Alps.
Image size: 24,1,5 x19 cm.
Production date: 1854.
Condition: fine.