This series of panels combines scenes from La Grande Helvétie together with panels depicting Le Pont du Diable from the series Vues de Suisse. Both these panoramic sets were manufactured by Zuber of Rixheim. nos. 1400-1419 (La Grande Helvétie, original edition 1804), and nos. 720-735 (Vues de Suisse, original edition 1804). Both sets were designed by Pierre-Antoine Mangin from a variety of sources including contemporary engravings and romantic landscape paintings by artists such as Caspar Wolf. Both sets are illustrated in O.Nouvel-Klammerer, Papier Peints Panoramiques, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 18 September-20 of January 1991, pp. 294-295. Panoramic sets of this type, originally termed "papiers peints paysages," were an exclusively French genre of wallpaper production, first appearing at the Exposition des Produits de L'Industrie in 1806. So dazzling was the effect of their vivid colors and spectacular subject matter that they sparked a heated debate on the respective merits of of painting versus the more industrial process of wallpaper production, leading to a bitter rivalry for prizes at the great exhibitions of the first half of the nineteenth century. A victory was achieved for the manufacturers of wallpapers when Joseph Dufour won an important lawsuit against a printmaker in 1804 who accused him of plagiarism, Doufour claimed that his own use of engraved sources, when transferred into the medium of wallpapers, had attained "une perfection absolument nouvelle en papier peint". (See O. Nouvel-Kammerer, "Papiers Peints Panoramiques, ou les enjeux d'un débat sur l'art et l'industrie", Un Age d'or des Arts Décoratifs 1814-1848, 1991, pp. 24-27).