Mont Blanc
Matterhorn - Cervin
Dolomites and Tyrol
British Mountains
The Himalaya
Bernese Oberland
Suisse
The Alps
Recent Arrivals
Other Mountains
Early printed engravings of Chamonix and Mont Blanc by William Windham in 1742 started to attract attention and drew other visitors to the valley. Artists, including William Pars, visited Chamonix in 1770; Linck, Hackert, Terry et al. were attracted by Mont Blanc, whilst the remote Matterhorn, or Cervin, did not become the subject of the artist's brush until early 1800.
Mountaineers, professional men, came to the Alps purely for mountaineering. Some would invite an artist to accompany them to paint the peaks climbed. As a permanent record of their achievements these paintings would also delight and impress friends and acquaintances. A permanent record of those remote places which are now changing has fortunately been captured in early Mountain Paintings.
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| cockburn |
| E. T. Compton |
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