Altitudinal zonation
Date
1815
Creator
Jean Louis Coutant (1776 - 1831, French) , Engraver
After
Pierre Antoine Marchais (1763, French) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
45363
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 209mm
width (print): 265mm
width (print): 265mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagrams of five mountains, showing plant ecosystems on their slopes, mapped against height. Figure 1 shows the equatorial stratovolcanoes Chimborazo in Ecuador and Popocatépetl in Mexico. Figure 2 shows the temperate region peaks of Mont Blanc on the alpine border of France and Italy and Monte Perdito (Mont Perdu) in Spain’s Pyrenees. Figure 3 shows the Arctic region mountain Sulitjelma on the Norway-Sweden border.
Plate within the book De distributione geographica plantarum…by Alexander von Humboldt (Paris, 1817). Inscribed below with the tite: ‘Geographiae plantarum lineamenta…’ Also inscribed: ‘Al. Humboldt del. Marchais perf. 1815. Coutant sculps. L. Aubert scrip.’
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-11859) German scientist and geographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
Plate within the book De distributione geographica plantarum…by Alexander von Humboldt (Paris, 1817). Inscribed below with the tite: ‘Geographiae plantarum lineamenta…’ Also inscribed: ‘Al. Humboldt del. Marchais perf. 1815. Coutant sculps. L. Aubert scrip.’
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-11859) German scientist and geographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
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