Rhone Alpes Collection

Grenoble Bridge, 1824. Artist: JMW Turner
Grenoble Bridge, 1824. Painting held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. From The Studio Volume 81. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1921]

Advertisement for tourism at Chambery, France, c1920s

Drama on Mont Blanc, Alps, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 31st August 1902

The Mur de la Cote, c1855. Artist: George Baxter
The Mur de la Cote, c1855. From the mid 19th century, the British professional and leisured classes travelled to the Alps for health and recreation

Village Street in Artemare (Ain), 1871. Creator: Adolphe Appian
Village Street in Artemare (Ain), 1871

View of the Massif of Mont Blanc near the "Petit Jorasse, Grand Jorasse, le Geant" with the "Glaciers des Periades et Jorasse"

La Voulte, 1861. Creator: Edouard Baldus
La Voulte, 1861

Viviers, ca. 1861. Creator: Edouard Baldus
Viviers, ca. 1861

Viaduc de la Voulte, 1861 or after. Creator: Edouard Baldus
Viaduc de la Voulte, 1861 or after

The Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix, 1786, (1946). Creator: John Warwick Smith
The Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix, 1786, (1946). View of the Bossons Glacier, part of the Mont Blanc in the Alps, south-eastern France. Drawing in the British Museum, London

Descent of Mt. Blanc - enormous crevasses near the summit, Alps, 1901. Creator
Descent of Mt. Blanc - enormous crevasses near the summit, Alps, 1901. Climbers on Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, which stands between the Aosta Valley in Italy

Fort Lesseillon, near Bramante, 1827. Creator: Thomas Barber
Fort Lesseillon, near Bramante, 1827. Alpine pass leading to the fortifications at Esseillon in Savoy, France

Savoy, 1838. From A Display of the Naval Flags of All Nations. Collected from the Best Authorities. [Fisher, Son, & Co. London, 1838]

Palace of Justice of Grenoble, France, 1882-1884. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

The Chateau de Crussol, Saint-Peray, France, 19th century. Artist: Godard Q des Augustins
The Chateau de Crussol, Saint-Peray, France, 19th century. The Chateau de Crussol is a mostly ruined 13th century limestone castle in the commune of Saint-Peray that dominates the valley of Rhone

Village of Artemare, c1820-1890 (1924). Artist: Adolphe Appian
Village of Artemare, c1820-1890 (1924). A print from A History of French Etching from the 16th Century to the Present Day, by F L Leipnik, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924

Mont Blanc du Tacul and the Dent du Requin, the Alps, early 20th century

Peteret ridge, Mont Blanc, France, early 20th century

Thiou canal, Annecy, France, 1937. Artist: Martin Hurlimann
Thiou canal, Annecy, France, 1937. Women doing laundry in the canal, with the 12th-century Palais de l Isle in the background

Grenoble and the Alps of Belledonne, France, 1879

First test flight of a hot air balloon at Annonay, France, 4 June, 1783 (1890s). Enthusiastic crowds watching the first unmanned test flight by brothers Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier

Grenoble from the Belledonne range, France, 1886

Firing a cannon into clouds to prevent a hail storm, 1901. It was claimed that rain fell instead of the anticipated hail which would have damaged the grape vines in the wine producing area of

Sainte Foy church in Conques, 12th century
Sainte Foy church in Conques, originally built in the eighth century and demolished and rebuilt in the twelfth, 12th century

Italian face of Mont Blanc, seen from the South East on the Tour Ronde

Entree of Napoleon to Grenoble, March 1815, 19th century

Livestock Market in L Arbresle, France, mid-late 19th century. Artist: JB Louis Guy
Livestock Market in L Arbresle, France, mid-late 19th century. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

Carthusian monks netting and hooking fish in fishponds at Chartreuse, France, 15th century. Artist: Paul Limbourg
Carthusian monks netting and hooking fish in monastery fishponds at Chartreuse, France, 15th century. The monastery at Chartreuse was founded by St Bruno of Cologne in 1084

Ferney near Geneva, Switzerland, 1786. The chateau where Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer and embodiment of the Enlightenment, settled after 1758, viewed from the garden

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