ENGRAVING LAUSANNE. GENEVA. ROUARGUE

Description:
Technique: Chalcographic etching.
Measurements: Paper: 12,7 x 20,7 cm
(H x W) Image: 8,9 x 14,3 cm.
Description:
- Engraving of the surroundings of Lausanne, with a view of the Château de St. Marie, annexed buildings, and the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral, with Lake Geneva in the background.
- All the titles and signatures are outside the plate. The Draughtsman is unknown.
- On the upper margin is the legend 'Lac de Geneve - Lake Geneva - Genfersee'.
- On the lower margin it reads 'Lausanne - Lausanne - Lausanne'.
- The number '3' is printed in the upper right-hand corner, suggesting that the engraving is the third in a series.
- In the lower right-hand corner, the Engraver signs only as Rouargue, so it belongs to one of the two Rouargue brothers. In our opinion, the author of the plate of the Engraving is most probably Adolphe Rouargue (1810 - After 1870)
- The engraving could have been done on a wood panel (woodcut), or on an etching steel panel, although a different technique could have been used.
- Made in black monochrome tone, very good ink
- It is probably an engraving belonging to a book.
- The Engraving has a paper of fine thickness and regular quality.

Conservation and damage:
- General condition: Good.
- The upper side of the paper does not maintain the parallel to its opposite side, resulting in the paper of the Engraving having an irregular shape.
- It is very well inked, and has a good printing.
- The side margins are wide.
- The Engraving has suffered from humidity, so the paper has damp spots and rust spots.
- If you apply a light wash and bleaching, the result would be very good.

Comments:
- The measurements are approximate.

- Ideal as a collector's item and a decorative element.

- It presents the wear and tear of its time.

- The fact that the engraving has a distinctive mark or contrast is of great importance in order to identify data such as the engraver, the artist, the place where it was printed and other details.

- Because it is inevitable that there are differences in tonalities between photos and reality, you must bear in mind that the tones of the colours in the photos are not exactly the same as the tones of the real colours.

- The Engraving on sale is the one that corresponds to the photos, which in turn are complemented in this Description, with the aim of providing a better knowledge of the Object, and never being a detailed exhibition of it.

- The data provided here are not contrasted personal opinions.

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