Beschrijving
Portrait of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, half-length, holding a thistle. In front of him coral, a shell, fossils, and crystals. A mountain with waterfall in the background, and two goats near the peak of one of the mountains.
Engraving on hand laid paper, sheet size 193 x 130 mm., engraved by Joseph Nutting after Melchior Füssli. This print was used as a frontispiece in: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob. Ouresiphoites Helviticus, sive itinera Alpina tria. London: Henry Clements, 1708.
Joseph Nutting (active c. 1660-1722) was an English engraver and publisher, and a student of John Savage in London.
Johann Melchior Füssli (Zurich 1677-1736) was a Swiss draftsperson, engraver and bopok illustrator. After travelling trhoughout Germany for some years, he returned to Zurich in 1697, where he opened an engraving workshop with publishing company and established a monopoly in the region.
In very good condition, cropped within platemark and attached to carrier sheet. Biographical information in manuscript ink on the verso.
Not described in LeBlanc (vol. 3, p. 110 lists 7 engravings by Nutting, all portraits).
