Description
Large vintage gelatin-silver photograph showing Lago di Montespluga on the approach to the Splügen Pass (Italy/Swiss border). Across the lake you can make out the hamlet of Montespluga, the torrent dropping to the shore, and-halfway up the left slope-the elongated Casa Cantoniera di Stuetta beside the road’s switchbacks. Blank back; borderless darkroom print on fiber paper. From the look and surface, it is very likely 1930s-1950s.
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Original gelatin-silver enlargement, approx. 12 x 9.5 in (about 30.5 x 24.1 cm)
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Subject: Alpine lake, glacier saddle, road zig-zags, waterfall, Casa Cantoniera Stuetta
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Believed location: Lago di Montespluga / Splügen Pass-topography and building placement match period views
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Borderless fiber-based paper with warm tone typical of mid-century studio prints
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Blank reverse, no photographer stamp detected
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Scarcer as a large display print (most surviving views are small postcards)
Condition
Clean, well-kept example with light paper curl/waviness from age and a few unobtrusive handling touches at the margins-no writing or major faults noted. Please zoom all photos for the best look at surface, edges, and the Stuetta building detail.
This is a handsome period view of the Spluga/Montespluga landscape, with the road-house Casa Cantoniera clearly visible-ideal for collectors of Alpine photography, road-building history, or Italian border-pass ephemera.
