Handbill
27 February 1819 (dated)
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Handbill advertising an exhibition of models of 'Mountains of Switzerland', including models of the Valleys of Chamouni, Mont Blanc and the Grotto of l'Arveiron; the Simplon Pass; the Valley of Bagnes, the City of Geneva; and a model of the whole country measuring 5 feet by 4 feet, to be seen at no. 20 Frith Street, Soho, London, dated in ink, 27 February 1819.
The models, made to various scales, were all the work of I.B. Troye, described on the handbill as 'Modeller to her late Royal Highness, the Princess Charlotte, and pupil of the celebrated Mr. EXCHAQUET, Geometrician to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.'
The models, made to various scales, were all the work of I.B. Troye, described on the handbill as 'Modeller to her late Royal Highness, the Princess Charlotte, and pupil of the celebrated Mr. EXCHAQUET, Geometrician to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.'
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Letterpress, with ink annotation |
| Brief description | Handbill advertising an exhibition of models of 'Mountains of Switzerland in relief including the Valley of Chamouni (sic) and correct representations of the Mont Blanc, the Grotto of l'Arveiron (sic), the Passage of the Simplon, the Valley of Bagnes, the city of Geneva, the Pays de Vaud, the Passage of St. Bernard, and the lakes of Geneva, Bienne, Moral and Neuchatel', to be seen at no. 20 Frith Street, Soho, London, dated in ink, 27 February 1819. |
| Physical description | Printed advertisement for an exhibition of relief models of 'Mountains of Switzerland', to be seen at no. 20 Frith Street, Soho, London, dated in ink, 27 February 1819. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '27 Feb 1819' (Annotation in ink, upper right hand corner) |
| Object history | The handbill notes that the models of Switzerland were made and sold by I.B. Troye: 'modeller to her late Highness the Princess Charlotte and pupil of the celebrated Mr. Exchaquet, Geometrician to his Majesty the King of Sardinia'. One attraction of the exhibition was a model to the Valley of Bagnes in the Swiss Alps before and after the huge landslide of 1818. During the winter of 1817/1818 masses of ice and snow from the Gietroz Glacier had damned the River Drance and formed Lake Mauvoisin. In June 1818 the lake burst its barriers and caused terrible devastation throughout the entire Val de Bagnes as far as Sembrancher and Martigny. In 1818 a 16-page leaflet: 'A Description of the Inundation of the Valley of Bagnes in Swisserland [sic]' was published and sold by I.B. Troye and S. Glover, 20 Frith Street. |
| Summary | Handbill advertising an exhibition of models of 'Mountains of Switzerland', including models of the Valleys of Chamouni, Mont Blanc and the Grotto of l'Arveiron; the Simplon Pass; the Valley of Bagnes, the City of Geneva; and a model of the whole country measuring 5 feet by 4 feet, to be seen at no. 20 Frith Street, Soho, London, dated in ink, 27 February 1819. The models, made to various scales, were all the work of I.B. Troye, described on the handbill as 'Modeller to her late Royal Highness, the Princess Charlotte, and pupil of the celebrated Mr. EXCHAQUET, Geometrician to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.' |
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| Accession number | S.1208-1982 |
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| Record created | June 26, 2012 |
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