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 390
: Fortune est nourrice de Folie would justlydescribe the extent to which kind providence protected those nineteen men againstthe folly of inexperience. Were it not for de Saussures own remark, that these pictures give a very goodgeneral idea of this expedition and of the attitudes of the… … FIG. 234. DE SAUSSURES EXPLORATION OF THE GRAND GEANT, ACCOMPANIED BY HISELDEST SON, IN JULY 1788. DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY H. LEVEQUE detail the painter certainly missed, ror de Saussure mentions that in consequenceof the dreadful condition in which Balmat and Dr. Paccard returned from the…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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