Mer de Glace. La Taeul – Vintage Wall Art
![Mer de Glace. La Taeul, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bc/bc65c8138fdf-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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Mer de Glace. La Taeul comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mer de Glace. La Taeul
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This albumen print shows the Mer de Glace, the broad river of ice that descends from the Mont Blanc massif above Chamonix, and it is paired here with a rocky feature labeled La Taeul. The record places it in a traveler's album alongside views of Athens, Egypt, the Rhine, the Tyrol and Salzburg, which suggests it was assembled as a record of a continental tour. Visitors of the 1860s through the 1880s often reached the glacier on foot or by mule, and photographs like this one let armchair travelers see a landscape that many of them would never climb.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1860-1890.Albumen prints 1860-1890. |
| Notes | In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 32, lower right. |
| Subjects | Glaciers--Switzerland--1860-1890. Mountains--Switzerland--1860-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185478 |
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