Lot no. 96
GRUNDMANN (Samuel). Vue de l'Aiguille du Dru, de l'aiguille verte avec le glacier des Bois Berne, Bâle, Lausanne, Genève, Johann Peter Lamy, ca. 1815. Watercolour and gouache aquatint, 12 x 16 cm, framed. Beautiful view of the Glacier des Bois, then at its maximum extension of the Little Ice Age.
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- GRUNDMANN (Samuel): Vue du glacier et de l'aiguille d'Argentière dans la vallée de Chamouni. Berne, Bâle, Lausanne, Genève, Johann Peter Lamy, ca. 1815. Watercolour and gouache aquatint, 11.5 x 15 cm, framed.
- GRUNDMANN (Samuel): Vue de l'Entrée dans la vallée de Chamouni et du Dome du Gouté. Bern, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Johann Peter Lamy, ca. 1815. Watercolour and gouache aquatint, 11.5 x 16 cm, framed.
- GRUNDMANN (Samuel): Vue prise en passant par la Tête noire, sur la frontière du Valais. Bern, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Johann Peter Lamy, ca. 1815. Watercolour and gouache aquatint, 11.5 x 16cm, framed.
Some foxing and soiling, mainly in the margins.
Samuel Grundmann (mid-18th century - c. 1830) was an artist to whom we owe some very fine engravings of the Mont Blanc region, although his biography is little known.
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