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The Fallaize Collection.

Photographic portraits: Montenegro.

A gathering of people in the Balkans selling fish taken in winter sunlight. 

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Two foxes (Canis vulpes) in the snow. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; image 18.8 x 13.8 cm

A boy walks across the snow crying and leaving a trail of red paint. Colour process print after Harry Rountree.

1 print : line engraving ; image 39.3 x 50.2 cm

Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Line engraving by J. Landseer, 1831, after E. Landseer.

1 print : stipple engraving ; image 38.9 x 30.4 cm

A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.

<p>Chromolitho card issued possibly in the 1890s by Dietrich Ferdinand Onnen, pharmacist, for local distribution (there is no mention of the name of the town where his premises are located) advertising his shop and German Fever and Ague Mixture for "all forms of malarial disease", on sale at 50 cents and containing no arsenic or quinine. This may have been sent as a Christmas card (we have two different ones - possibly from different years). The picture shows a rural snow scene: a house behind a pond, a cart between them, trees and bushes to the left.</p>

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 74.

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 11 x 14 cm

Compliments of D.F. Onnen, pharmacist : s.w. cor. Sharp & Montgomery Sts. / D.F. Onnen.

1 print : aquatint (?), etching and engraving ; image 33.2 x 49.8 cm

Meteorology: various effects of the weather, from summer calm (left) to winter storms (right). Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 14.4 x 21.2 cm

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A gathering of people in the Balkans selling fish taken in winter sunlight.

Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Two foxes (Canis vulpes) in the snow. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.

A boy walks across the snow crying and leaving a trail of red paint. Colour process print after Harry Rountree.

Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Line engraving by J. Landseer, 1831, after E. Landseer.

A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.

Compliments of D.F. Onnen, pharmacist : s.w. cor. Sharp & Montgomery Sts. / D.F. Onnen.

Meteorology: various effects of the weather, from summer calm (left) to winter storms (right). Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

A coach and horses have become stuck in the snow. Wood engraving.

Geography: a snow bridge formed between two glaciers. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

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A gathering of people in the Balkans selling fish taken in winter sunlight.

Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Two foxes (Canis vulpes) in the snow. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.

A boy walks across the snow crying and leaving a trail of red paint. Colour process print after Harry Rountree.

Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Line engraving by J. Landseer, 1831, after E. Landseer.

A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.

Compliments of D.F. Onnen, pharmacist : s.w. cor. Sharp & Montgomery Sts. / D.F. Onnen.

Meteorology: various effects of the weather, from summer calm (left) to winter storms (right). Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

A coach and horses have become stuck in the snow. Wood engraving.

Geography: a snow bridge formed between two glaciers. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

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