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Vue de Chamouni prise du Mt. Breven

image © Trustees of the British Museum | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Date

c.1796

Artist

Print after Unknown Artist

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http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3317333

Additional Makers

Publisher - Fr Monty; Print maker - Konrad Sulzberger

Description

View of the Chamonix Valley running horizontally across the composition; a town on the valley floor through which flows a river, either side of which are fields and patches of forest; in the centre foreground is a road with a log on which two figures with baskets sit, another figure standing beside them; a tree stump in the left foreground; forest either side of the foreground road; a glacier descends from the mountains on the far right, another smaller one on the left; a chain of snowy peaks in the background. Etching with hand-colouring.

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Lettered below image: "gravé par Sulzberger de Winterthour 1796."

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

Vallée de Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France

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