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UNTERSEEN,Historical Swiss Views,1834 Antique Engraving,Topography of Switzerland UNTERSEEN,Historical Swiss View,1834 Antique Engraving Collectible Art Print Interlaken (570 m), though originally the stomping ground of some wayward Celts, was taken over by the Romans in 58 B.C. These conquerors gave it the Latin name "Interlacus," meaning "between the lakes." The Germanic tribes over-ran Switzerland a little more than three hundred years later, and it was specifically the Alemanni who moved into the valley in 260 A.D. Sometime during their heyday the name was mutated to "Inder-lappen." All of Switzerland came under Frankish rule during the sixth century, but the Franks had little effect on an area already well ensconsed in the Germanic language and culture. In 1133, an Augustinian monastery was founded and given the strangely familiar name of "Interlacus." The monks gained power by buying up all of the surrounding lands, during the next few centuries eventually becoming the biggest landowners in all of the Berner Oberland. The concept of feudalism was alive and thriving. Around the year 1280, Count Berchtold of Eschenbach got permission to build a town on lands rented from the monastery. His town, just over on the other side of the River Aare, became known as "Unterseen," also "between the lakes." ABOUT THE ARTIST - William Henry Bartlett, (born in London, 26 March 1809; died at sea off Malta, 13 Sept 1854) was an English draughtsman, active also in the Near East, Continental Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveler. His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings published in his own and other writers' topographical books. His primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of established pictorial conventions to render 'lively impressions of actual sights', as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Bartlett's several views of Scotland bear the date of 1837, and as Nathaniel Parker Willis stated, "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed". Most views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles. The interest in these engravings today is as much for the quality of the rendering and presentation of the architecture of the period as it is for the representation of the landscape. PUBLISHED DATE 1834 PUBLISHER GEORGE VIRTUE ARTIST FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY W.H. BARTLETT ENGRAVED BY WOOLNOTH PAGE SIZE: approx 10 3/4 ins x 8 ins IMAGE SIZE: approx 7 1/4 ins x 4 3/4 ins - There is 1-2 inches of border to the print . CONDITION: SteelEngraving . Excellent Condition. The print is blank on reverse side. Heavier paper. Suitable Ageing. As Scanned. N° de ref. del artículo 11057
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