2-756-350 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Mer de Glace or Glacier des Bois', 1787, (1946). View of the Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) glacier between craggy mountain tops: 'left, the Charmos; right, the Pic du Dru [Aiguille du Dru - 'the Needle of Dru']; behind, the Aiguille du Géant [Dent du Géant - giant's tooth] and the [Grandes] Jorasses' - mountain peaks in the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps between France and Italy. Etching from "Voyage Pittoresque aux Alpes Pennines" by Jean François Albanis de Beaumont. [1787], in the British Museum, London. Published in "British Mountaineers", by F. S. Smythe. [Collins, London, 1946]