about ||| this is a gorgeous lithograph - printed at a famous, ancient mill in France. please see extra blurbs below. it's a print on paper made sheet by sheet and hand dried on strings at the paper mill (see below for more about the paper mill). watermark is present on the paper.
how to use ||| love this for a bathroom, gallery wall, next to a hanging plant
condition ||| like-new - slight bends in paper but seems they would flatten with framing (see photos)
measurements ||| 13" L & 10" h
more about the subject of the piece:
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse (Occitan: La Fònt de Vauclusa or simply Vauclusa) is a commune in the southeastern French department of Vaucluse. In 2018, it had a population of 585. Its name comes from the spring of the same name; the name Vaucluse itself comes from the Latin phrase vallis clausa or "closed valley".[Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ("spring of Vaucluse") is built around the Fontaine de Vaucluse, a spring in a valley at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains, between Saumane-de-Vaucluse and Lagnes, not far from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. It is named after the spring, the source of the River Sorgue.[3]In 1946, Jacques Cousteau and another diver were almost killed while searching for the bottom of the spring. An air compressor used to fill their tanks had taken in its own exhaust fumes and produced carbon monoxide—nearly killing them before they could return to the surface from a depth of approximately 100 metres
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The principal point of interest is the source of the Sorgue at the foot of a cliff 240 metres high: Its average flow is 22 m3 / second, the highest in France, and can attain 110 m3 after the snow melts. It wasn't until 1985 that the mystery of its origin was partially revealed: in effect, the lowest point is at -308m depth attained by a robot belonging to the Spelunking Society of Fontaine de Vaucluse. The spring is the only exit point of a subterranean basin of 1200 km2 that collects the water from Mount Ventoux, the Vaucluse mountains and from the Lure mountain.
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Ruins of the castle of the Bishop of Cavaillon
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Ancient paper mill
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Museum of the Resistance
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Petrarch museum (on the site of his former house)
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Santon museum[5]
