Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer, also Adam-Wolfgang or simply Adam Töpffer, was a Swiss painter who specialized in landscapes and watercolors. His son was the illustrator and cartoonist, Rodolphe Töpffer, who i
Self-portrait (1832)
View of Mont Blanc from Geneva
Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the fi
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
…an engraver and later studied at the "Society of Arts'. He worked as an engraver in Lausanne for a short time, then went on an Alpine expedition with Horace-Bénédict de Saussure; making sketches. In 1786, members of the Society, impressed with his work, recommended that he go to study in Paris and offered a scholarship. While…
Portrait of Horace Bénédict de Saussure (after the picture by Juel, in the Library at Geneva)
Christian von Mechel, Descent from Mont-Blanc in 1787 by H.B. de Saussure, copper engraving; collection of Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Cyanometer, Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
Anemometer: a metal plate catches the wind and weight keep it still; their mass measure the strength of the wind,MHS Geneva)