Buy PERTUIS STONE ENGRAVING. JURA. SWITZERLAND. 19th century

- Engraving Piedra de Pertuis. Jura. Jura. Switzerland.
- This is a modest wood in the Jura mountains, between two towns a small road runs up a small pass between the two neighbouring valleys. In the forest, there is a limestone cliff on which there is an arch through which a path runs. What is unusual and special is that there is an inscription above the arch in red Roman letters. It was carved in the second half of the 1st century AD less than fifty years after the death of Jesus Christ and almost at the same time as the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius. It reads as follows: In honour of the emperor, this road was built by Marcus Dunius Paternus Duovirum of the Helvetic colony.
- All titles and signatures are outside the plate.
- In the upper margin is the legend 'JURA'.
- In the lower margin is the legend 'Pierre Pertuis - Pertuis Stone - Pertuis Felsen'.
- In the upper right-hand corner is printed the number "2", which suggests that the engraving is number 2 of a series.
- In the lower right corner, the Engraver signs only as Rouargue, so it is by one of the two Rouargue brothers. In our opinion, the author of the engraving plate is most probably Adolphe Rouargue (1810 - 1870).
- Chalcographic etching on steel plate, although another technique could also have been used.
- It is executed in single-colour black tone, very well inked.
- It is probably an engraving belonging to a book.