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Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner

Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm, 1759-1835 · 1811 · Zurich : À la librairie de Gessner · 20 pictures

A set of engraved landscape plates published in Zurich in 1811 from the Gessner bookshop, after gouache paintings and drawings by Salomon Gessner and engraved by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, for a French-reading audience. The pictures are rotated pastoral scenes of woodland, rocks, streams and figures under trees, with shaded tonal engraving that a designer could draw on for classical bucolic compositions and soft, layered foliage.

Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788 · Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm, 1759-1835

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