VITTORIO SELLA. Kabru and Kangchenjunga at Sunrise, Near Pamionchi, 1899, Sella number HS 184, 7.3x9.4" collodion print, printed 1901, mounted on 10x12" heavy brown board. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print. Inscribed in black ink mount recto: Kabru and Kangchinjinga at sunrise from Pamionchi. Inscribed in pencil mount recto: 184 / HS 184.

Pamionchi lays midway between Darjiling and the higher mountains.

Sella worked in all four seasons and under the most difficult circumstances, documenting the highest regions of the earth with extraordinary artistry. Ansel Adams paid tribute to Sella's greatness in a 1946 article for the Sierra Club Bulletin when he wrote, "with Sella's sensitive insight and response the magnificence of mountains is distilled into a high order of expression."

His groundbreaking works of art from the Alps, the Caucasus, Africa, Alaska, and the Himalayas influenced Victorian aesthetics, and furthered scientific studies in the fields of anthropology, cartography, meteorology, and botany, and currently are used extensively in studies of glacial retreat.

Creases in print, minor wear and edge and corner wear, dirty. Mount has corner and edge wear, dirt. Mount verso has tape marks.