Upper Engadine Silvaplana II. Grisons Switzerland – Vintage Wall Art
![Upper Engadine Silvaplana II. Grisons Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/99/993a41016794-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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Upper Engadine Silvaplana II. Grisons Switzerland comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Upper Engadine Silvaplana II. Grisons Switzerland
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Silvaplana sits beside its lake in the Upper Engadine, a high valley in the canton of Grisons in southeastern Switzerland. This view, number 1886 in the Detroit Publishing Company's 1905 catalog of Swiss views, was made by the photochrom process, which built a color image from several lithographic stones, one for each hue. The original photochroms were produced in Zurich in the 1890s, and Detroit sold American versions as travel souvenirs. The print is dated between about 1890 and 1900.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 1886. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,674 × 2,738 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4529_Upper_Engadine_Silvapla_1890.tif-07159u |
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