Lot Essay
FIRST EDITION of this stunning panorama, and an early issue of the fine suite of plates. The two were issued separately but they often appear bound together. There are significant differences between the first, printed by Frick frres, and the second edition, printed by Jacomme, suggesting that Schranz may have provided the printers with different drawings of the same scenes. Schranz produced three other panoramas and two further suites of plates, all of which, in the absence of documentation, have been tentatively dated to the mid 1850s.