- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3023.1-24
- Title
- Object: Souvenir du Mont Blanc
- Description
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Album containing 24 unnumbered views of Switzerland and France; bound in cloth-covered boards with ornamental blind and gold stamping and the title on the front of the cover
Lithographs, with a beige tint-plate, individually titled as follows:
1) 'Le Mont Blanc vue de St. Martin'
2) 'Le mont Blanc. Vue prise au dessus de Sallenches'
3) 'Vue de l'Etablissement des Bains.'
4) 'Chamonix. Et la chaine du mont blanc.'
5) 'Chamouny. Vue de la mer de glace, prise du Chapeau'
6) 'Chamouny, Vue du Jardin.'
7) 'Chamouny. Vue Générale'
8) 'Chamouny, Hotel Rôyal et de l'Union.'
9) 'Chamouny, Mer de Glace.'
10) 'Chamouny, Glacier des Bossons et du Taconnin'
11) 'Ascension du Mont Blanc'
12) 'La Cabane sur le Grand Moulet. au Mont Blanc.'
13) 'Chamouny. Première ascension de l'aiguille du midi par le comte Fernand de Bouillé, escalade du dernier rocher le 5 Aout 1856, 5 heures du matin'
14) 'Chamouny. Première ascension de l'aiguille du midi par le comte Fernand de Bouillé nuit du 4 au 5 août 1856 - 3,500 mêtres au dessus de la mer, 10 dégrès de froid.'
15) 'Source de l'Aveiron, Vue du glacier des Bois, prise du Village des Praz à Chamouny.'
16) 'Vue de la Vallée de Chamouni prise du Col de Balme. View of the Valley of Chamouni taken from the Col de Balme.'; second state, with a different publisher's address
17) 'Passage de la tête noire, Route de Chamouny.'
18) 'Hospice St. Bernard, Valais.'
19) 'Zermatt, Vallée du Mont-Rose. (Canton du Valais)'
20) 'Vallée de St. Nicolas, Hotel du Riffel, sur le Riffel-Gratt, Environ de Zermatt. Canton du Valais'
21) 'Col et fortification de St. Théodule, Entre Zermatt et Breul (Canton du Valais), 3,340 m. au dessus du niveau de la mer.'
22) 'La Chaine du Mont Rose, Vue du Gorner Gratt, Environs de Zermatt'
23) 'Le mont Cervin, Vu du Riffelgratt, Environs de Zermatt.'
24) 'Loéche-les-Bains, Chemin de la Gemmi, Canton du Valais.'
- Production date
- 1826-1865 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 263 millimetres (album)
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Height: 160 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 230 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This album is a compilation of 23 lithographs and 1 aquatint from various series. It is rather difficult to reconstruct for each plate the exact series because such touristic views generally were used for several editions and also passed from one publisher to another. This can be seen in the print 16) by Friedrich Salathe after a drawing by Maximilien de Meuron. This aquatint first appeared as plate 16 in 'Voyage pittoresque dans la vallée de Chamouni et autour de Mont-Blanc', Paris, Osterwald, 1826 (see Anton Gattlen, L'estampe topographique du Valais, 2 vols, Brigue 1987-1992, vol. 1, p. 103, no. 718). However, the print in our album does not belong to this edition since it is lettered '52'. The changing number is because another Paris publisher, Wild, later bought the printing plate and published the print as plate 52 of a different series.
Gattlen (op. cit., vol. I, pp. 58-59) suggested that the name 'A. Charlet' stamped on the front cover refers to the librarian who published the album. On the other hand, the name can also refer to Armand Charlet, a pioneer mounteneer in the Mont Blanc massiv where Robert Wylie Lloyd himself made several climbs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0712.3023.1-24
