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10028.g.5(7)
- Record Id:
- 040-003235063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003235056
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x0005ce
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 10028.g.5(7)
- Title:
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Le Trou Perdu, Via Mala, Switzerland. Photographer: Braun, Jean Adolphe
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View along the sheer gorge of the Hinterrhein River on the route between Thusis and Zilla, with the road clinging to the cliffside and entering the tunnel in the right foreground. With accompanying letterpress by Francis Young: 'So deep was the rift here, and so precipitous, that no one dared attempt to clamber along its sides, and at last the people of the neighbouring villages came to speak of it as 'Le Trou Perdu,' or the Lost Gulf...At last, when the eighteenth century was drawing towards its close, the engineer Pocobelli was entrusted with the task of making a new road...His first care was to drive a tunnel through the spur or buttress of rock which flanks one side of the Trou Perdu, and which is approached by the short bridge-like structure shown in the illustration...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003235056
040-003235063 - Is part of:
- 10028.g.5 : Treasure spots of the world. A selection of the chief beauties and wonders of nature and art. Edited by Walter B. Woodbury.…
10028.g.5(7) : Le Trou Perdu, Via Mala, Switzerland. Photographer: Braun, Jean Adolphe - Hierarchy:
- 032-003235056[0007]/040-003235063
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: 10028.g.5
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photomechanical Print
Woodburytype - Start Date:
- 1865
- End Date:
- 1875
- Date Range:
- 1865-1875
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 162 mm x 122 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Braun, Jean Adolphe, 1812-1877
- Subjects:
- Cliffs
Gorges
Land
Road transport
Roads and Highways
Transportation - Places:
- Via Mala, Graubünden (de), Switzerland, Europe, Western Europe