Pictet Family of Geneva
- Date:
- 1760-1903
- Reference:
- MS.7422
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, relating to various members of the Pictet family.
Publication/Creation
1760-1903
Physical description
31 items
Acquisition note
Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390), July 1930 (acc.63453), February 1931 (acc.64689), September 1932 (acc.65659) and November 1932 (acc.65667); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56485); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365). Acquisition details of nos.10 and 26 not noted.
Biographical note
Various members of the Pictet family, some closely related and others less so, are documented here. At the centre of the collection are Marc-Auguste Pictet F.R.S. (1752-1825), physician and natural philosopher; his brother Charles Pictet (1755-1824), politician; and the latter's son Adolphe Pictet (1799-1875), professor of aesthetics and literature.
For more detail on the relationship of the individuals documented and on the various strands of the family (Pictet de Rochemont, Pictet de la Rive, etc.), see the Dictionnaire Historique et Biographique de la Suisse (Neuchâtel, 1930), vol.5.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.
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Location Status Access Closed stores
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Accession number
- Various - see Acquisition note.