Waterlandschap, met bergen op de achtergrond before 1903

This small photograph, "Waterlandschap, met bergen op de achtergrond," might not have any indicated date, but you can get a sense of how old the book is just by looking at it. The image is glued into the book, as photography wasn’t as reproducible as it is now. You get the sense that this was someone’s prized possession. I can imagine that Leopold von Waldkirch cared about landscape. Look at how they must have framed the shot. The tones in the water are quite dark, but the horizon line is crystal clear. I wonder if the mountains in the background looked different in real life or if this is Waldkirch’s artistic interpretation. I imagine that this photographer wasn’t alone, but rather part of a larger movement of documentarians and nature lovers. What if he’s looking through the camera and thinking about how to memorialize this scene forever? The quiet in this image is something so loud.