Michel Picquenot was a French engraver. This rare engraving was published in Paris in Tableaux topographiques.
- image: rare engraving of view of the town of Chur in Switzerland by Jean Jacques Freancois le Barbier (1738-1826) and engraved by Picquenot
- year: 1780
- quality: good, a few spots (foxing) in the lower margin. Foxing is a localized deterioration of paper made before the mid-nineteenth century, so-called rag paper. This paper often contained small metal particles that rusted under the influence of moisture
- signed: printed below the plate
- image size: 24.9 x 37.1 cm | 9.8 x 14.6 in (h x w)
- sheet or frame size: 43.2 x 54.3 cm | 17.0 x 21.4 in (h x w)