"La Savoie Pittoresque. Carte en relief des Alpes Savoisiennes".

Painted molding, collage; 69 x 93 cm

Behind glass in wooden box.

Rare second edition of an assembled relief map of the Alps (scale: 1:200.000) by L. Abrioud and H. Dolin for which a molding by M. Janin was painted by M. Julliard. Interesting is the presence of railways, tramways and mule tracks. Reliefs were particularly important for science and education in the first half of the 20th c. We could find only one copy in the Swiss Alpine Museum that has the largest collection of relief maps. The "Syndicat d'initiative de la Savoie" was founded in 1938.
Ref. Swiss Alpine Museum.