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| 1. |  | Choiselat & Ratel 1845 Valley in the French Alps [Tal in den Französischen Alpen] Daguerreotype 20.6 x 16.3 cm Private collection of W. & T. Bosshard Courtesy of Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing This Daguerreotype was published in Kunst und Magie der Daguerreotypie Collection of W. + T. Bosshard by René Perret (2006), p.191 |
| 2. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850s [View from Himalayas] Albumen silver print 20.2 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 ins) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.948.1 (21) |
| 3. |  | John Stewart 1852-1853 View Along the Route to Luz, Portugal Salted paper print, Blanquart-Evrard process, from waxed paper negative 22.20 x 29.90 cm (8 11/16 x 11 3/4 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund, Accession No.: 1995.235 |
| 4. |  | James Wallace Black 1854 In the Notch, White Mountains Albumen print 24 x 29 cm (9 7/16 x 11 7/16 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Robert O. Dougan Collection, gift of Warner Communications, Inc., Object Number: x1979-100 |
| 5. |  | James Wallace Black 1854 In the White Mountain Notch Albumen print 28.8 x 23.4 cm (11 5/16 x 9 3/16 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Robert O. Dougan Collection, gift of Warner Communications, Inc., Object Number: x1979-101 |
| 6. |  | F. Maxwell Lyte 1857 (ca) Chaos, Gavarnie Albumen silver print 22.5 x 28.1 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Gift of David, Edward, and John Lewall, British Columbia, 2004, no. 41514 This photograph is available through CyberMuse - cybermuse.gallery.ca (Accessed: August 2010). |
| 7. |  | F. Maxwell Lyte 1860 (ca) Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées Albumen silver print 20.6 x 26.4 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Purchased 2003, no. 41266 This photograph is available through CyberMuse - cybermuse.gallery.ca (Accessed: August 2010). |
| 8. |  | F. Maxwell Lyte 1860 (ca) Cirque de Gavarnie, Haute Pyrénées Albumen silver print 27.3 x 31.7 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Gift of David Lewall, Andorra, and of Edward and John Lewall, British Columbia, 2003, no. 41331 This photograph is available through CyberMuse - cybermuse.gallery.ca (Accessed: August 2010). |
| 9. |  | Francis Bedford 1860 Mer de Glace Albumen print 16.50 x 20.70 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland (Accession no. PGP R 877), Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985 |
| 10. |  | Francis Frith 1850-1870s (ca) 201 Mont Blanc. the Glacier Des Bois. Chamounix Albumen print, from wet collodion glass negative 6.5 x 8 in (image, approx) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum Number: E.208:354-1994, Acquired from F. Frith and Company, 1954 |
| 11. |  | Samuel Bourne 1867 (ca) Kulu, Spiti; View on the Beas, near Larji Albumen print 23.2 x 29 cm (9 1/8 x 11 7/16 ins) (image) 45.8 x 55.8 cm (18 1/16 x 21 15/16 ins) (mount) Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum On deposit from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier:2.2002.121 |
| 12. |  | Samuel Bourne 1867 (ca) View in Zojji - la Pass, Kashmir Albumen print 29.3 x 23.9 cm (11 9/16 x 9 7/16 ins) (image) 55.8 x 45.8 cm (21 15/16 x 18 1/16 ins) (mount) Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum On deposit from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier:2.2002.103 |
| 13. |  | Bisson frères 1858 Mt. Blanc, Vue du Jardin Albumen print 11 1/2 x 17 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (U1503) Bisson Freres stamp on lower right corner of mount under the photograph. |
| 14. |  | Bisson frères 1860 Mont Blanc Albumen silver print 23.5 x 38.8 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Purchased 1967, no. 20084 This photograph is available through CyberMuse - cybermuse.gallery.ca (Accessed: August 2010). |
| 15. |  | Bisson frères 1860 Ascension of Mont-Blanc Albumen silver print 11 1/4 x 14 1/8 ins George Eastman Museum From the album Haute-Savoie, Le Mont Blanc et Ses Glaciers: Souvenir du Voyage de M. M. L'Imperatrice (Paris, 1860). The Bisson brothers' alpine accomplishments resulted in a 24-photograph album, dedicated to the Emperor and Empress of France, featuring majestic views of crevasses, ice, snowfields, and mountain tops. Ascension au Mont Blanc provides a sense of the sublime as the humans making their way through the snowfield appear as insects in this landscape. |
| 16. |  | Bisson frères 1860s (ca) Mt. Blanc Albumen print 15 3/8 x 9 3/8 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (V1452) Signed in red ink on mount under lower right corner of print, in pencil on lower right corner: Savoie 34. Les Bossons, chemin de Mt. Blanc. |
| 17. |  | Bisson frères 1860s (ca) Mt. Blanc, Vue du Jardin Albumen print 11 1/2 x 17 Lee Gallery Bisson Freres stamp on l.r. corner of mount under the photograph, U1503 |
| 18. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1871-1874 (survey), 1874 (expedition) 46. Baldy Peak, Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado, 14,234 feet above sea-level. Limit in altitude of vegetation about 11,000 feet. [Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian] Stereocard, detail Etherton Gallery |
| 19. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1871-1874 (survey), 1874 (expedition) 47. Alpine lakes and mountain scenery in the Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado, 13,000 feet above sea-level. [Wheeler Survey, Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian] Stereocard, detail Etherton Gallery |
| 20. |  | Gustav Jõgermayer 1863 Welitz Glacier, East by North from the Foot of the Umbal Glacier Albumen print, mounted on cardboard Albertina © Albertina, Vienna This version includes the Albertina digital watermark in the lower right which is not visible on the original image. |
| 21. |  | Adolphe Braun 1865 (ca) Paysage Suisse Carbon print 37 x 47 cm Photo Verdeau |
| 22. |  | Adolphe Braun 1860s The Gabelhorn with the Schwarz-See, near Zermatt Albumen print British Library |
| 23. |  | Adolphe Braun 1870s Climbers on the Mer de Glace, Chamonix Carbon print 22.7 x 47.6 cm Ken & Jenny Jacobson |
| 24. |  | Charnaux Frères et Cie (Studio de Geneve) 1880 (ca) Sommet du Mont Blanc Albumen print, from glass plate negative 18.3 x 25.7 cm CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 42 Mounted on cabinet card, annotated in ink verso. Remarquable photographie de montagne du XIXe siÞcle. Photographier le mont blanc, Guérin, 2002, page 138. |
| 25. |  | F. Charnaux 1875 (ca) Climbing the Seracs at Chamonix (French Alps) Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius) Courtesy of Jan Weijers |
| 26. |  | Vittorio Sella 1896 Book covers for Douglas William Freshfield & Vittorio Sella, "The Exploration of the Caucasus", two volumes (London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896) Book cover Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps, New York (#20353) |
| 27. |  | Vittorio Sella 1896 Ushba Group from Ciat Bashi Book plate Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps, New York (#20353) Douglas William Freshfield & Vittorio Sella, "The Exploration of the Caucasus", two volumes (London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896.) |
| 28. |  | Vittorio Sella 1896 The Karagom Glacier and Burdjula Book plate Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps Donald A. Heald - Rare Books, Prints & Maps, New York (#20353) Douglas William Freshfield & Vittorio Sella, "The Exploration of the Caucasus", two volumes (London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896.) |
| 29. |  | Vittorio Sella 1900 (ca) Cima e Torre di Brenta Collodion print Lempertz - Cologne Auction 1021, November 26, 2013, Lot: 50 |
| 30. |  | Chusseau-Flaviens 1908 (ca) Bulgarie/Defile de la Montagne Noire Belogratchik Negative, gelatin on glass 13 x 18 cm George Eastman Museum Record Id: 1975:0111:5951 |
| 31. |  | Chusseau-Flaviens 1900-1919 (ca) Belgique Prince Albert/(On orig):eg Negative, gelatin on glass 18 x 13 cm George Eastman Museum Record Id: 1975:0111:1011 |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer 1875-1889 Photograph of Mount Jackson, Fusilade Mountain, and Mount Reynolds. Cyanotype National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 282362] |
| 33. |  | Bradford Washburn 1942, 6 June Tremendous southerly windstorm sweeps McKinley's twin peaks Gelatin silver print Decaneas Archive Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive |
| 34. |  | Bradford Washburn 1947, 31 March Upper 3 miles of Muldrow Glacier showing details of Great Serac Gelatin silver print Decaneas Archive Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive |
| 35. |  | Bradford Washburn 1958 N face of Grandes Jorasses at moonrise, France Gelatin silver print Decaneas Archive Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive |
| 36. |  | Ansel Adams 1927-1937 From Wawona Tunnel, Winter, Yosemite Gelatin silver print 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 Barry Singer Gallery |
| 37. |  | Ansel Adams 1944 Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California Gelatin silver print 65 3/4 x 45 3/4 Barry Singer Gallery |
| 38. |  | Ansel Adams 1955 (ca) Half Dome Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California Gelatin silver print 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 Barry Singer Gallery |
| 39. |  | Jeff Nixon 1983 Storm clouds from Washburn Point, Yosemite 15 5/8 x 19 5/16 Barry Singer Gallery |
| 40. |  | Wang Wusheng n.d. [Untitled] Gelatin silver print Barry Friedman Ltd |
| 41. |  | Wang Wusheng n.d. [Untitled] Gelatin silver print Barry Friedman Ltd |
| 42. |  | Frank Hurley 1914-1917 The "Bulldog" Peak [Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 (led by Ernest Shackleton on the "Endurance")] Paget plate Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Courtesy of State Library of NSW, Digital Order No:a090028 |
| 43. |  | Mark Twain (author) 1880 Mark Twain attempting to photograph the Matterhorn Book page Google Books Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad, Vol.II, Third edition, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1880), p.100 But lonely, conspicuous, and superb rose that wonderful upright wedge, the Matterhorn. Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. A little later the Matterhorn 1 took to himself the semblance of a volcano; he was stripped naked to his apex around this circled vast wreaths of white cloud which strung slowly out and streamed away slantwise toward the sun, a twenty-mile stretch of rolling and tumbling vapour, and looking just as if it were pouring out of a crater. 1 Note. I had the very unusual luck to catch one little momentary glimpse of the Matterhorn wholly unencumbered by clouds. I levelled my photographic apparatus at it without the loss of an instant, and should have got an elegant picture if my donkey had not interfered. It was my purpose to draw this photograph all by myself for my book, but was obliged to put the mountain part of it into the hands of the professional artist because I found I could not do landscape well. |