Antique Swiss Stereoview – No. 232. Grindelwald Grotte de Glace
£10.00
Description: A rare original stereoview of the Grindelwald Ice Grotto (Grotte de Glace). The image captures the interior of a hand-cut ice tunnel, featuring a local guide or traveller standing along a wooden plank walkway—a testament to early Alpine adventure tourism.
This card is a product of F. Charnaux à Genève, a pioneering photographer active in Geneva from the 1850s to the 1880s. Along with his brother, Charnaux was renowned for his high-quality landscape and mountain photography, documenting the "Suisse et Savoie" region for Victorian travellers.
Photographer: F. Charnaux (Geneva, Switzerland).
Series: Suisse et Savoie.
Subject: No. 232. Grindelwald Grotte de Glace.
Date: Circa 1870s.
Format: Albumen silver prints on a distinctive orange/yellow mount.
Condition: Authentic antique condition. The photographic images retain good detail of the ice textures, though they exhibit some light surface rubbing and age-related tonal shifts typical of 150-year-old prints.
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