Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12524

    Breiðamerkurjökull glacier

    Date
    1823
    Creator
    Friedrich Eduard Müller (1812 - 1885, German) , Engraver
    After
    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793 - 1858, German) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 222mm
    width (print): 280mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > glacier
    Description
    Landscape showing an excursion to the outflow of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier,
    Vatnajökull, Iceland. A party of men and horses is shown lower left, near to a river flowing from the glaciet, behind.

    Plate 26 from the book Reise im Norden Europa's vorzuglich in Island in den Jahren 1820 bis 1821 angestellt, by F.A.L Thienemann and G.B. Gunther, 2 vols., (Leipzig, 1824).

    Inscribed above: ‘T.XXVI.’ Inscribed below: ‘auctor. ad nat. del. Fr. Ed. Müller sc. Ausfluss der Breidamarker Jökullsau aus dem Sökull‘.

    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793-1858) German physician and ornithologist embarked on a tour of Norway and Iceland with Gustav Biedermann Günther (1801-1866) German surgeon, during the years 1819-1820.
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