Gabriel Ludwig Lory (1763-1840), the Swiss painter, trained with Johann Aberli in Bern, and became renowned for his watercolours of Switzerland and the Alps. His son, Mathias-Gabriel (1784-1846) trained with his father. In 1811 they published in Paris their spectacular series of Swiss views, Voyage Pittoresque de Genève à Milan par la route du Simplon, which appeared in English in the present form. A fine production, this printing benefits from both the expertise Lory father and son, and Ackermann as printer. In this copy, the plates are dated 1819 or 1820. As Tooley writes in his bibliography of English Books with Coloured Plates 1790-1860, “the book was issued later ... with the title still dated 1820 but the plates of later dates, and the impressions of these later issues are considerably inferior to the originals” (p.359).