Mountain Collection (page 9)

MOUNT SINAI: MONASTERY. Saint Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt. Lithograph by Louis Haghe, c1845, after a painting by David Roberts

SUTTERs MILL, c1850. James Marshall, prospector, standing in front of Sutters Mill, where he discovered gold, Coloma, California. Photograph, c1850

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Kawaibashi Date: circa 1910s

Le Mont Cervin (Matterhorn Mountain) from Riffelalp a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland

Mount Rainier and Gateway to the City of Tacoma, USA (note the Old City hall - 8193) - sitting above the extensive Northern Pacific Railroad freight depot (yards) and the Thea Foss Waterway

Gerardmer, Vosges, France - on the Col de la Schlucht mountain pass in the Vosges Mountains. Date: circa 1907

Moulin and Ben Vrackie Corbett
Moulin, Perth & Kinross, Scotland and Ben Vrackie (in the distance). Ben Vrackie is a Corbett (peaks in Scotland that are between 2, 500 and 3, 000 feet in height). Date: circa 1920

White Butterbur (Petasites albus) flowering, Vercors, French Alps, France, May

Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) adult male, perched in Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), Nethy Bridge, Strathspey, Cairngorms N.P. Inverness-shire, Highlands, Scotland, February

Horse, Highland Pony, adult, with Glenstrathfarrar deer stalking saddle, standing on upland, Spittal of Glenshee, Cairngorms N.P. Perth and Kinross, Highlands, Scotland, May

View of Hobart and River Derwent from Sandy Bay
The city lights glow golden as the sun sets over Hobart

A Skier On Top Of Mount Hood
Portland, Oregon: July 8, 1936 A skier stands on Mount Hood for some mid-summer skiing

Italy, Campania, Amalfi Coast, Positano UNESCO World Heritage Site

View of sea loch and mountain peaks, viewed from Beinn Sgaillinish, Loch Tarbert, Paps of Jura, Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Bacchus and Vesuvius, fresco
Roman civilization. Bacchus and Vesuvius, fresco from Pompei

Map of Genoa and Florence from Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Georg Braun, 1541-1622 and Franz Hogenberg, 1540-1590
Cartography, Italy, 16th century. Map of Genoa and Florence. From Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Franz Hogenberg (1540-1590), Cologne. Engraving

Raper drawing No. 11
Views in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. (a) the Sugar Loaf [and] the Lyons Rump & Sugar-Loaf on with the Table-Land 1790

BIERSTADT: YELLOWSTONE. Yellowstone Falls. Oil on canvas by Albert Bierstadt, c1881

IRELAND: GAP OF DUNLOE. View of the Gap of Dunloe, near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Steel engraving, English, c1840, after William Henry Bartlett

VENEZUELA: MOUNTAIN, 1872. The Peak of Naiguata, in Venezuela. Wood engraving from an English newspaper of 1872

MEXICO: MONTERREY, c1846. Scene at Monterrey, Mexico. Line engraving, 19th century

COLORADO: MINING, 1874. A mountainside in Colorado honeycombed by silver mines. Wood engraving, American, 1874

PROMETHEUS. Prometheus and the ocean nymphs. Line engraving, 19th century, after a sculpture by Eduard Muller

Lake Lucerne with Pilatus mountain, Switzerland
A view of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, with the Pilatus mountain in the background (height of 2132 metres). Date: circa 1940

CANADIAN RAILROAD POSTER. Poster, 1924, by G. Y. Kauffman, for Canadian Pacific Limited
CANADIAN RAILROAD POSTER. Poster, 1924, by G.Y. Kauffman, for Canadian Pacific Limited

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Photograph, n. d
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Photograph, n.d

Yeti. This mythical primate is said to live in the impenetrable thickets of the highest Himalayan forests. The earliest British report of a yeti was made in 1832 by the naturalist B. H. Hobson

Eastern Himalayas, satellite image. North is at top. Snow is white, vegetation is red, barren areas are light blue and water is dark blue

Survival of the fittest, artwork
Survival of the fittest, conceptual artwork

Stromboli double eruption. Two craters of the volcano Stromboli erupting at night, throwing out pyroclastic material in the form of lava (molten rock)

Glacier crevasse, Canada
Glacier crevasse. Crevasse in the surface of the Tellot glacier. Crevasses form in glaciers as the ice cracks when the glacier moves

THORNTON: DRAGON ARUM. The Dragon Arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott). Engraving by William Ward after a painting by Peter Henderson for The Temple of Flora, by British botanist Robert John Thornton

ENGLAND: CUMBRIA. Northern Lakes: Ashness Bridge, Derwentwater

Saint Moritz, Switzerland, 1800s
Village of Saint Moritz, Switzerland in the 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Trail left by the Loch Ness Monster?
Photographic results from a four week search organised by Sir Edward Mountain into the existence of the Loch Ness Monster

THE ACROPOLIS, MYCENAE
A general view of the Acropolis at Mycenae. The primary remains at the site are the walls and tombs. The Palace has been almost totally destroyed over time

Costa Rica Mountain Road
View on the road between Port Limon and San Jose

Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Loch Linnhe. Frost covered shoreline of a Loch Linnhe Bay, viewed at dusk

Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Beinn Eighe NNR. Slioch, a mountain alongside Loch Maree in the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve which was Britains first National Nature Reserve

Scotland, Isle Of Skye, Elgol. Looking across the rocky shoreline north of Elgol towards the peaks of the Black Cuillins

sheep in blooming heather on blencathra in the Lake District UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Herdwick ewe on Steel Fell above Grasmere in the Lake district, UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

The Death of Faust
When it is time for Faust to die, Mephistopheles hurls him down to Hell from the highest mountain in Saxony, to make his fall as fearful as possible

Potosi, Bolivia / Mallet
Looking down towards the mountain surmounted by a cross. At the foot is a road & settlement with houses, huts & churches & men in European dress

Franz Josef Fjord and Peterman Mountain, Greenland
View of the Franz Josef Fjord (named after the Emperor who helped to fund an expedition there) and the Peterman Mountain, with glacier, in north eastern Greenland

Planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with walls on either side of the Heavens, a transparent firmament, a reservoir of waters above the planet, and above them the Empyrean vault

Aerial view over Abernethy forest and mountains at dawn, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK. April, 2020

Loch Eynort, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, c. 1880 s
19th century vintage photograph: Loch Eynort, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, c.1880 s

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