search Mountain Paintings - Mountain Art - Alpine Paintings Mont Blanc Mountain Paintings and Monte Bianco Arte Matterhorn Mountain Paintings, Dipinti Cervin Mountain Paintings fine original Mountain Art for sale, early Alpine paintings, Mountains and the Alps. Dipinti Di Montagna. Tableaux de Montagne. Berg Gemälde. Paintings of the Alps. Himalaya Paintings, British Mountains Art, Dipinti di Dolomiti, Berg Gemälde der Alpes Berner Oberland, Tableaux des Mont Blanc Chamonix, Dipinti Matterhorn, Zermatt, Tableaux Chamonix, Cervin - Fine, old, rare, collectable. Mountain Paintings - original Mountain Art for sale and purchased. Paintings of the Alps - early Mountain Paintings bought and sold. Tableaux des Mont Blanc - Dipinti di Montagne Dipinti Dolomites and Tyrol Mountain Paintings British Mountains Himalaya Mountain Paintings Bernese Oberland Alpine Paintings For more information about any of the mountain paintings CONTACT astill.tony@gmail.com Suisse Mountain Paintings Alpine Mountain Paintings Mountain Paintings More Mountain Art Artists have been painting mountains for centuries - Leonard de Vinci made sketches of high mountains c.1500. Long before that mountains were represented in the background of biblical scenes. Itinera per Helvetiae Alpinas regiones of 1723 by Johann Jacob Scheuzer is the grandest early book in which illustrations of mountains appeared. Early printed engravings of Chamonix and Mont Blanc by William Windham in 1742 started to attract attention and drew other visitors to the valley. Artists, including William Pars, visited Chamonix in 1770; Linck, Hackert, Terry et al. were attracted by Mont Blanc, whilst the remote Matterhorn, or Cervin, did not become the subject of the artist's brush until early 1800. Mountaineers, professional men, came to the Alps purely for mountaineering. Some would invite an artist to accompany them to paint the peaks climbed. As a permanent record of their achievements these paintings would also delight and impress friends and acquaintances. A permanent record of those remote places which are now changing has fortunately been captured in these early Mountain Paintings. Original Mountain Paintings for sale - Mountain Art for sale - Fine old Mountain Paintings - Mountain Art - Alps - Himalaya - British Mountains - Dolomites - Tyrol - Berner Oberland - Valais - Mont Blanc - Chamonix - Matterhorn Cervin - Zermatt - other Mountain Ranges - original Mountain Paintings - Mountain Art - Dipinti di Alpi - Tableaux des Alpes Montagnes - Himalaya Mountain Paintings - Fine, old, rare, original, collectable, antique, fine quality. Mountains and Mountaineering in Art & Literature. Tony Astill is the proprietor of Les Alpes Livres and a specialist dealer of mountaineering books and mountain paintings with over 40 years experience. www.mountaineeringbooks.org The selection of old mountaineering books for sale here is probably the most extensive to be found anywhere, especially the early Alpine classics written by British mountaineers who formed and became the Alpine Club. Men such as Edward Whymper, Alfred Wills, T.W. Hinchliff. Of all the Mont Blanc narratives A Narrative of an Ascent to The Summit of Mont Blanc 21st. September 1853 by John MacGregor was not published at the time and so I have recently privately published a limited edition of 200 copies which are complimented by fine art prints of the rare Baxter oil prints of the ascent. Mount Everest Books and ephemera Mount Everest are also a speciality. One more book which was not written in it's own time was that of the Mount Everest Reconnaissance 1935 led by Eric Shipton. This was corrected when I completed writing and privately published Mount Everest The Reconnaissance 1935 : The Forgotten Adventure which won the coveted James Monroe Thorington Award for Best Book Mountaineering History at the Banff Mountain Festival 2006. Here also is the largest selection of mountain paintings and mountain art for sale. Paintings of all mountain ranges, from the Alps to the Himalaya, are represented. Mont Blanc, Chamonix, the Matterhorn, Zermatt, the Bernese Oberland, Dolomites and the mountains of North Wales, the Lake District and Scotland too, by artists E.T. Compton, Elijah Walton, J.-A. Linck, George Barnard, J. Bleuler, Gabriel Loppe, F. Sommer and many other mountain paintings. Mountain Paintings and Mountain Art for sale and purchased. Specialist website images of original, early Mountain Paintings and Mountain Art bought and sold. For further details of any of the mountain paintings for sale which are displayed on this website of mountain paintings then please The Art of Mountains and Mountaineering - contact astill.tony@gmail.com astill.tony@gmail More Mountain Paintings are added regularly - Take a look here.