Title
VUE DU FAMEUX MONT-BLANC DANS LE HAUT FAUCIGNY EN SAVOIE : Prise au-dessus de la Valle_e de Sallanche, dans laquelle on decouvre la Ville de ce nom ainsi que ses Environs et partie du cours de l'Arve. / Peint d'apre_s nature par A: Bacler d'Albe.
Creator
Mechel, Christian von, 1737-1817, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[Basel] : Publie_ en 1790 par Chr: de Mechel a_ Basle, [1790]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured etching ; platemark 48.8 x 63.3 cm, on sheet 49.8 x 67 cm (trimmed below platemark at top edge)
Description
Two shepherds rest with their flock by a spring, near a family sitting at the door of their wooden hut on a hill in the foreground contemplating the view of the valley below and the mountains in the background. Text referring to the first successful ascent to Mont-Blanc by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat in 1786 below.
Place
Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Other persons
Bacler d'Albe, Louis-Albert-Ghislain, 1761-1824, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.76.77.b.