Glaciers - Switzerland

Date: 1866

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-319

Description: A glacier in the foreground, with hills and mountains behind Other Titles - Mountains and green and white glacier. Sea of Ice [translation] Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - title inscribed in pencil. Illegible word is something like Winter... or Mint.. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white over pencil 250 x 350 mm Provenance: Descent from artist to Wilkie family

Date: Ca 1865

By: Soulier, Charles, active 1840-1876

Reference: PA1-f-011

Description: Views of the Swiss Alps and the French Alps. Images and the photographer's number are as follows, with the first 15 taken in Switzerland, 16-25 in France "Lucerne and the Sonnenberg (no. 102); Statue of the lion of Lucerne (No. 105); Mont-Blanc (No. 173); Reichenbach Falls (No. 110); the lesser Reichenbach Falls (No. 112); Chalets at Rosenlaui (No. 113); Mounts Welhorn and Wetterhorn at Rosenlaui (No. 114); Interlaken (No. 116); Lake and Chateau at Thoune [i.e. Thun] (No. 128); The Staubbach Falls in the Lauterbrunnen Valley (No. 120); Thoune [i.e. Thun] and the alps (No. 130); The Cotteron Bridge at Fribourg (No. 139); Panorama of Sion, in the Rhone Valley (No. 144); Trient Gorge at Martigny-Ville (No. 146); Tamine Gorge at Pfafers (No. 148); Chamonix and Mont-Blanc (No. 149); View of a glacier from Montanvers (No. 151); Source of the River Arveiron in the Chamonix Valley at the mouth of a glacier (No. 163); Bossons Glacier in the Chamonix Valley (No. 164); Cabin and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 174); Rocks and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 175); Seracs and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 176); Les Ouches [i.e. Houches] and the Piq du Midi in the Chamonic Valley (No. 178); Sallanches and Mont-Blanc (No. 181). Photographs taken by Charles Soulier, ca. 1865, published by Photog. Antonin, 47 Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 25 albumen prints Provenance: Provenance unknown

Date: [ca 1897]

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0602

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of climbers crossing a snow capped glacier, in Switzerland. Photograph taken by a staff photographer of Underwood and Underwood ca 1897. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - left of image - Underwood & Underwood Publishers.....; Backing board recto - right of image - Works and Studios, Arlington NJ, Littleton N.H. Washington, DC; Backing board recto - beneath image - The accent of ..gfrau - Crossing the Glacier, Switzerland. Copyright 1897 Underwood and Underwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: ca 1897

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

Reference: PA4-0680

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of mountain climbers on the ascent of Jungfrau, crossing the glacier. Photograph taken by Underwood and Underwood ca. 1893. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Ascent of Jungfrau-Crossing the Glacier, Switzerland. Copyright 1897 by Underwood and Underwood; Recto - right of image - Underwood & Underwood. Publishers New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: 1866

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-173

Description: A mountain scene in Switzerland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 348 x 247 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s or 1890s?]

By: Charnaux Freres (Geneva, Switzerland)

Reference: PA1-o-488

Description: Tourist photographs of the Swiss Alps taken by Charnaux Freres of Geneva. Album consists of joined pages folded in concertina form. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "Souvenir", Charnaux Freres & Cie., Geneve; 21.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: 1879

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-039

Description: Green with his wife and daughter and a male companion, roping together before they cross the glacier. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 110 x 135 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s or 1890s?]

By: Charnaux Freres (Geneva, Switzerland)

Reference: PA1-o-487

Description: Album of tourist photographs taken by Swiss photographers Charnaux Freres, Geneva. They include scenes of mountain climbing, negotiating a crevasse, glaciers, and Chamonix Album consists of joined pages folded in concertina form Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "Souvenir", Charnaux Freres & Cie., Geneve; 21.5 x 27.0 cm