'Plumbago. Interior of the Graphite Mine of Batougol, in the Saiansk Mountains, Eastern Siberia'.
Jean-Pierre Alibert (1820 - 1905), French merchant and adventurer, operator of the Batougol graphite mine in Siberia, which he opened in 1847. He discovered a deposit of graphite of exceptional purity (plumbagin) on Mount Batougol, in the Sayyan massif, west of Irkutsk. Despite the very inhospitable nature of the region, he managed to develop the mine and make it very profitable for about fifteen years. In fact, at about the same time, the mine at Borrowdale, in Cumberland, in the north of England, was depleted; it was the only facility in the world that produced sufficiently pure graphite to produce good quality pencil leads.
Technique, Material: Woodcut / Paper
Artist: Engraver: Alexandre-Pierre de Bar
Date: Encyclopaedia A Dictionary Of Universal Knowledge, 1870.
Size: 24x15 cm.
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