‘Mount Bielastica’

Page featuring an engraving (made after a drawing by Arthur Evans), captioned ‘Mount Bielastica’, published in Arthur J. Evans, Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September 1875 (London, 1876), p.296.

Artist: Unidentified engraver, after an original drawing [1941.8.168] by Arthur John Evans
Date of publication: 1876
Continent: Europe
Geographical area: Southern Europe
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Region/Place: Bjelašnica
Format: Woodcut engraving
Page size: 234 x 141 mm
Acquisition: Henry Balfour. Bequeathed February 1939

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Research notes: It has been identified by Philip Grover that this woodcut engraving by an unnamed artist was based on an original drawing [1941.8.168] by Arthur John Evans, being a view (looking south-south-west) of Mount Bjelašnica. It was published in Evans’ account of his journey, Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September 1875 (London, 1876), p.296, printed with the caption ‘Mount Bielastica’. Evans recorded in the volume: ‘We now wanted to make our way into the Narenta valley over the north-west shoulder of Mt. Bielastica, but were turned out of our course by the deep gorge of the Priesnica, and thought it best to ascend the south-eastern promontory of a largish range known by the name of Mt. Igman - though the title covers a multitude of peaks. The scenery now became more beautiful than ever, though profoundly lonely, save here and there for a beautiful black squirrel leaping from branch to branch, or a huge brown vulture floating through the azure overhead’: Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot, p.295. Note that ‘Mount Bielastica’ refers to Mount Bjelašnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.