Seelisberg and Pilatus Lake Lucerne Switzerland – Vintage Photo Print
![Seelisberg and Pilatus Lake Lucerne Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0fe3bdfd7323-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of Seelisberg and Pilatus Lake Lucerne Switzerland brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Seelisberg and Pilatus Lake Lucerne Switzerland
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Seelisberg, a village on a terrace above the western shore of Lake Lucerne, looks out here across the water toward the craggy bulk of Mount Pilatus. The print comes from the photochrom process, a Swiss method that transferred a photograph onto several lithographic stones, one for each color, and then had them hand-retouched before printing. Detroit Publishing Company issued this view in its 1905 catalog of Swiss scenes, though the photograph itself dates from the 1890s, when lake steamers were carrying growing numbers of tourists to the region.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 6362. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,683 × 2,767 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3860_Seelisberg_and_Pilatus_1890.tif-07268u |
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