A 19th-century hand-colored steel engraving of Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland, with snow-capped peaks beyond and a group of peasants driving their cattle along the road in the foreground.
A 19th-century hand-colored steel engraving of Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland, with snow-capped peaks beyond and a group of peasants driving their cattle along the road in the foreground.
From Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron (London, John Murray), one of the most widely circulated landscape series of English Romanticism, drawn here by J. S. Cooper and engraved on steel by Edward Francis Finden.
Medium: steel engraving, hand-colored
Artist / after: J. S. Cooper
Engraver: Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857)
Date: c. 1833
Source: Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, London, John Murray
Dimensions: Image 3.5 x 5.1 in (9 x 13 cm)
Condition: good condition, with wide margins and the hand coloring well preserved