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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Antique Prints :: Landscape :: Switzerland :: THE VALAIS AND MARTIGNY FROM THE FORCLAS, PASS OF THE TETE NOIRE,IN SWITZERLAND,1835 Swiss View

THE VALAIS AND MARTIGNY FROM THE FORCLAS, PASS OF THE TETE NOIRE,IN SWITZERLAND,1835 Swiss View
THE VALAIS AND MARTIGNY FROM THE FORCLAS, PASS OF THE TETE NOIRE,IN SWITZERLAND,1835 Swiss View
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THE VALAIS AND MARTIGNY FROM THE FORCLAS, PASS OF THE TETE NOIRE ,Historical Swiss Views,1835 Antique Engraving,Topography of Switzerland

THE VALAIS AND MARTIGNY FROM THE FORCLAS, PASS OF THE TETE NOIRE ,Historical Swiss View,1835 Antique Engraving

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Martigny is a small city in Switzerland, located in the canton of Valais at an elevation of 475 meters. Its population is of approximately 15 000 inhabitants (Martignerains or "Octoduriens"). Martigny is located at a crossroad between Italy, France and Switzerland, one road linking this town over the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta (Italy), and the other one, over the "col du Trient" to Chamonix (France).

ABOUT THE ARTIST - William Henry Bartlett, (born in London, 26 March 1809; died at sea off Malta, 13 Sept 1854) was an English draughtsman, active also in the Near East, Continental Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveler. His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings published in his own and other writers' topographical books. His primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of established pictorial conventions to render 'lively impressions of actual sights', as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Bartlett's several views of Scotland bear the date of 1837, and as Nathaniel Parker Willis stated, "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed". Most views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles. The interest in these engravings today is as much for the quality of the rendering and presentation of the architecture of the period as it is for the representation of the landscape.
PUBLISHED DATE 1835
PUBLISHER GEORGE VIRTUE
ARTIST FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY W.H. BARTLETT
ENGRAVED BY STARLING
PAGE SIZE: approx 10 3/4 ins x 8 ins
IMAGE SIZE: approx 7 1/4 ins x 4 3/4 ins - There is 1-2 inches of border to the print
CONDITION Dated Steel Engraving . Excellent Condition. The print is blank on reverse side. Heavier paper. Suitable Ageing. As Scanned.

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