Live auction - Lot 968
[France - Chamonix]
23 photos from the Mont Blanc region.
Hammer price: €
400
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
23 albumen prints, 8,1 x 10,9 cm, pasted on thick paper, ms. legends.
Loose. In folder.
Nice set of mountain photos with a.o. the Mer de Glace at Chamonix, the ice cave in the Glacier des Bossons, Le Brévent mountain, Montanvert, les Bossons, Mont Blanc, goats near Bossons glacier, Zurich city, Martigny Bourg, the Mont Blanc mountain range, monument of de Saussure and Jacques Balmat, Argentière, etc.
Joined: Souvenir de la Suisse. 2nd half 19th c. Contemp. red cloth album with gilt title on cover. With 51 coloured lithographic plates (some spotting/staining in the margins) by Heinrich Fisher (1820-1886), portrait and landscape painter from Nanikon. (23 photos & 1 album)