(Chamonix, Mt Blanc, Glacier) "Glacier des Bossons." printed J. Perrin, Chambery, France, 1854. $395.00

"Extremite Inferieure du Glacier des Bosson. Valle de Chamonix"

Wonderful hand colored early mid- 19^th century lithograph describing the Bossons Glacier (Chamonix, Mt Blanc) showing the glacier’s ice cascade, ice pinnacles and ice pyramids. The glacier is renown as having the greatest altitudinal extent of all alpine ice flows, beginning at the summit of Mt Blanc and extending all the way the valley floor.  “Bossons is French patois for “buissons” or bushes. In the 18^th and 19^th century the glacier did reach the bushes on the valley floor frightening peasants, ruining buildings and farmland in its trek downwards. This original antique lithograph was included in a view book titled, La Savoie Historique, Pittoresque, Statistique et Biographie, published 1854. Framed archivally in curly maple solid wood frame.

Lithograph with original hand color.
7 ¼ x 9 “sight, 14 x 15” outside frame size.
Excellent original condition.