The Alps Collection (page 8)

Climbing through the Bossons icefall on the way up Mont Blanc, Switzerland, early 20th century

The Bernina Range, Alps, early 20th century
The Bernina Range, Alps, 20th century

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

Rosshutte and the Wettersteingebirge mountains, near Seefeld, Austria, 20th century

Lugano and Monte San Salvatore, Switzerland, 20th century

Lugano, Switzerland, 20th century

Interlaken, Switzerland, 20th century. View looking towards the summits of the Eiger (3975m), Monch (4105m) and Jungfrau (4166m)

Lucerne, Switzerland, 20th century. View of the city with the summit of Pilatus (2132m) in the background

Bellinzona, Switzerland, early 20th century(?)

The Wellhorn and the Rosenlaui Glacier, Switzerland, 19th century. Artist: C Laplante
The Wellhorn and the Rosenlaui Glacier, Switzerland, 19th century

The Lauterbrunnen Valley, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 1903

Village of Splugen, Switzerland, 1834. Artist: W Wallis
Village of Splugen, Switzerland, 1834

The Fish Lake, Switzerland, 1879. Artist: Weber
The Fish Lake, Switzerland, 1879

Grenoble and the Alps of Belledonne, France, 1879

Suvorov crossing the Panix Pass, 1860. Artist: Kotzebue, Alexander von (1815-1889)
Suvorov crossing the Panix Pass, 1860. Found in the collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

In the Alpine High Valley (Landscape with Mt. Wendelstein), c. 1871. Artist: Spitzweg, Carl (1808-1885)
In the Alpine High Valley (Landscape with Mt. Wendelstein), c. 1871. Found in the collection of the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

Alpine landscape with a castle. Artist: Gatt, Ferdinand (1847-1909)
Alpine landscape with a castle. Found in the collection of the Regional A. Deineka Art Gallery, Kursk

Alpine landscape with a bridge. Artist: Gatt, Ferdinand (1847-1909)
Alpine landscape with a bridge. Found in the collection of the Regional A. Deineka Art Gallery, Kursk

Landscape, Oaks at Stockhorn, 1898. Artist: Ferdinand Hodler
Landscape, Oaks at Stockhorn, 1898. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Funeral at Lausanne, 1841. Artist: JMW Turner
Funeral at Lausanne, 1841. Found in the Tate collection, London

Avalanche at Mont Saint-Bernard, Switzerland, 1897. Artist: Henri Meyer
Avalanche at Mont Saint-Bernard, Switzerland, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 21st March 1897. Monks digging through the snow and debris

Lake Nambino and the Brentagroup, Tyrol, 1901. Artist: CM Reisch
Lake Nambino and the Brentagroup, Tyrol, 1901. Illustration from The Process Year Book, A Review of the Illustrated Arts. published by AW Penrose & Co, (London, 1901)

The Brenta Group, 1901. Artist: CM Reisch
The Brenta Group, 1901. View of the Alps from the Kaiserin Friedrich Platz, Tyrol. Illustration from The Process Year Book, A Review of the Illustrated Arts

A Terrible Accident in the Alps, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
A Terrible Accident in the Alps, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 23rd July 1892

The discovered corpse of Lieutenant Bujon, French Alps, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The discovered corpse of Lieutenant Bujon, French Alps, 1891. Bujon was a French soldier killed in a mountaineering accident on the Aiguille de Chambeyron on 16th August 1891

Lucerne, Central Switzerland, 19th century. Artist: John Cousen
Lucerne, Central Switzerland, 19th century. View of the lake and mountains with a water mill in the foreground

Grenoble from the Belledonne range, France, 1886

The electric railroad to Mount Jungfrau, Swiss Alps, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Francois Lasellaz
The electric railroad to Mount Jungfrau, Swiss Alps, 19th century. A print from les Dernieres Merveilles de la Science, by Daniel Bellet

Crossing of Mount St. Bernard, May, 1800, (19th century). The passage of Napoleon and his army across Mount Saint Bernard, the Alps, in the snow and ice

Storm in the Alps, c1503-1505. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Storm in the Alps, c1503-1505. From the collection of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Windsor, England

The Alps from space. NASA photograph
The Alps from space

The Alpenhorn at Gonergat above Zermatt, with the Matterhorn behind, in the Swiss Alps

The Wetterhorn from Alpiglen, below Kleine Scheidegg in the Swiss Alps

Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps
Jungfrau from Kleine Scheidegg in the Swiss Alps

Bad Ischl, 1836. Artist: Waldmuller, Ferdinand Georg (1793-1865)
Bad Ischl, 1836. Found in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

The Schonberg as seen from Hoisenrad, 1833. Artist: Waldmuller, Ferdinand Georg (1793-1865)
The Schonberg as seen from Hoisenrad, 1833. Found in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Army of Alexander Suvorov crossing the St Gotthard Pass, September 1799 (19th century). Artist: Alexander von Kotzebue
Army of Alexander Suvorov crossing the St Gotthard Pass, September 1799 (19th century). In 1799 and 1780, General Alexander Suvorov commanded a Russian army in campaigns against the French in

Dog from the Hospice of St Bernard finding a traveller in the snow, c1840. These famous mountain rescue dogs are named for Bernard of Menthon (fl 1081) who built two mountain rest houses in the Alps

Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps, 218 BC. During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 BC) led his army, including elephants

Hannibal crossing the Alps, 218 BC (early 20th century). During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army, including elephants

Crossing the Saint Bernard Pass, 1800. The Army of the Reserve led by General Louis Alexander Berthier (1753-1815), under the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), crosses the Alps in the snow

Crossing St Bernard, 15 May, 1800. Napoleon directing his troops through the Saint Bernard pass in the Alps. One of Bonapartes first aims was to regain the territories lost in Italy

The descent of Mount St Bernard, 1800. After his appointment as First Consul and Austrias attack on Italy, Napoleon and his troops cross the Alps following in the footsteps of Hannibal and Charlemagne

Shelter built by the glaciologist Louis Agassiz, Aar glacier, Switzerland, 1840 (1885). Agassizs studies of glaciers in the Alps led him to be the first to propose the theory that the Earth had been

Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 1874
Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in the excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 1874. The Mont Cenis Tunnel was built between 1857

Construction of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail

Completion of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail. Workmen from the two ends of the 9 1/4 mile-long tunnel broke through the last

Grand Combin from Mont Avril

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