About the Artwork
The Wilderness: Grimsel Pass
19th century
Alexandre Calame (Artist) Swiss, 1810-1864 Jean Bryner (Artist) Swiss, 1816-1906 Schmid and Saugy (Printer) Swiss
Etching and aquatint printed in black on wove paper
plate: 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. 30.7 x 21.5 cm sheet: 19 x 12 3/8 in. 48.2 x 31.4 cm
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.209
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Markings
In plate, lower left of image: A Calame fecit.; lower right: 1839
In plate, lower left: A. Calame Delt.; lower center: imp. de Schmid et Saugy, a Geneve; lower right: J: Bryner sculpt.; center bottom margin: LE DESERT / Chemin du Grimsel
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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein
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Jean Bryner; after Alexandre Calame, The Wilderness: Grimsel Pass, 19th century, Etching and aquatint printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.209.
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