Album officiel de la Fête des Vignerons 5-9 Août

Album officiel de la Fête des Vignerons Vevey 1889, 5 - 9 août. chromo-lithographic leperello in illustrated cloth bds. (190x265mm) several folds repaired, sm blemish to bds.

Album officiel de la Fête des Vignerons Vevey 1889 - 5-9 Août


Lausanne : Payot, and Vevey : Lortscher & Fils and Guillarmod, Éditeurs, 1889. First edition.  Engraved and printed by S Krakow, Paris.  Colour lithographic illustration by E. Vuillemin
based on costumes of P. Vallouy, official painter; board illustration by F Boscovits.

(190x265mm) grey bevel edged, illustrated printed cloth boards lettered in gilt; chromolithographic illustrated in 24 unpaginated leperello panels (each approximately 240x170mm) attached to the front paste-down, (approximately 6000mm unfolded). Board edges faintly worn to corners, small blemish and previous owner name in faded ink to upper board; two folds professionally repaired, two folds with 2cm tears to the edge of the fold; faint foxing to edges in several places not affecting the illustration.

A beautifully illustrated album portraying the procession given for the Winegrowers' Festival in Vevey, Switzerland in 1889.  All professions linked to the vine are represented as well as three floats of
mythological figures, Palès, Ceres, Bacchus and a wedding party and its guests representing the 22 cantons of Switzerland.

In the 17th century the Brotherhood of Winegrowers, then known as the Agricultural Association or Abbaye of St. Urban, organised a yearly pageant and parade. By 1797 the pageant had grown to become a festival incorporating art and poetry over several days at a stage venue culminating in a tradition of crowning vineyard workers. The Confrérie des Vignerons de Vevey has held the festival once a generation since 1797. By 1889 original poetry, prose, drama and music were being commissioned for the festival. The 1889 festival venue held 12,000 people, was held over 5 days and involved some
1349 participants. The last festival was held in 2019 featuring 15 events over 3 weeks and 5000 participants. In 2016, the festival was added by UNESCO to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The board illustration was designed by Franz Friedrich Boscovits, known as Fritz (1871-1965), a Swiss painter, caricaturist and graphic designer.

A lovely copy in boards.