Sport in art; an iconography of sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth of the end of the eighteenth centuries (1913)
Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921 · London, Ballantyne and co., ltd · leaf 382
nts, to differentiate them from others, we propose to call the pub-lished Mechel prints, for there exist a few proofs of two other plates commemorat-ing the same event. These, there is reason to believe, de Saussure caused to besuppressed because the artist had represented him in a somewhat… … FIG. 231. DE SAUSSURES DESCENT FROM MONT BLANC IN 1787. BY AN UNKNOWNARTIST. PUBLISHED IN COLOURS BY CH. DE MECHEL IN 1790 IN BASLE is among the rarest of Alpine engravings. Whether de Saussures undignifiedpose, sitting on the ice and being helped by two men with ropes over an absolutelydangerless…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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