Monks promenade Mont St. Michel France – Vintage Wall Art
![Monks promenade Mont St. Michel France, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/57/579cdc9abeaf-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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A window into the past: Monks promenade Mont St. Michel France, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Monks promenade Mont St. Michel France
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The title names monks walking the abbey grounds on Mont Saint-Michel, a granite island off the Normandy coast that rises above tidal flats and is crowned by a Benedictine abbey founded in the 8th century. By the 1890s the abbey was no longer a working monastery. It had served as a prison in the early 19th century and was being restored as a national monument, so the figures in this view may reflect the romantic idea of the site as much as its daily life. The photochrom process, a hand-colored printing method from London, was prized for tourist views like this one, and Detroit Publishing Co. sold it in America under the Photochrom name.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9721. Views of architecture monuments and other sites in France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,744 × 2,800 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2694_Monks_promenade_Mont_St_1890.tif-05140u |
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