Destruction of a Swiss Village by an Avalanche
Print
Unidentified
Maker
William Spooner
British, active 1833–1847
Destruction of a Swiss Village by an Avalanche
ca. 1842
Lithograph
Image: 13.7 × 17.6 cm (5 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Paper: 14.7 × 18.5 cm (5 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Mount: 22.8 × 28.5 cm (9 × 11 1/4 in.)
1982.2611.0001
Inscriptions recto bc (printed label): SPOONERS PROTEAN VIEWS No. 4 / DESTRUCTION OF A SWISS VILLAGE BY AN AVALANCHE. / The Village is seen by Moonlight, the inhabitants by the lights gleaming from the / casements & reflected on the Lake are not yet retired to their beds. The Morning dawn / brings to view the destruction of the Night--an Avalanche has buried in its fall the / village leaving but the Spire of the Church and the Turret of the Castle to mark / its situation / LONDON W. SPOONER 377 STRAND.
