Balthasar Anton Dunker
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Balthasar Anton Dunker was a German landscape painter and etcher.
Balthasar Anton Dunker; portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
William Tell fights the revolution, drawing with aquarel colours, 1798, now in the Swiss National Museum
The French invasion of Switzerland occurred from January to May 1798 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The independent Old Swiss Confederacy collapsed from the invasion and simultaneous intern
Entry of the French into Bern on 15 March 1798. Engraving by Abraham Girardet, c. 1798–1803
Liberty tree erected in Basel. This act was repeated in other Swiss places to symbolise revolution and liberation.
Contemporary drawing of the Battle of Neuenegg, 5 March 1798. Bernese heavy cavalry (in red) mounts an attack against French dragoons on the river Sense.
The Last Days of Old Bern, by Friedrich Walthard, depicting the Battle of Grauholz