Fiescher glacier
Date
1840
Creator
Hercule Nicolet (1801 - 1872, Swiss) , Printer
Creator - Organisation
Joseph & Edouard Bettannier, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
24456
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 470mm
width (page): 325mm
height (plate): 330mm
width (plate): 230mm
width (page): 325mm
height (plate): 330mm
width (plate): 230mm
Subject
Description
View of the glacier of Fiesch, Valais, Switzerland, showing the glacier flowing through a deep valley, and behind, the peaks of Fiescherhorn, Finsteraarhorn and Rothhorn, left to right respectively. Two figures are visible looking up from the bottom of the valley.
Inscribed below: Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse) Dess. d’apres nature et Lith par Bettanier/ GLACIER DE VIESCH’.
Plate 10 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland. Bound opposite a leaf of tissue paper numbered ‘10a’, with outline drawing of objects represented and annotations identifying them.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal in 1861 for his 'researches in palaeontology and other branches of science’. He also wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Inscribed below: Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse) Dess. d’apres nature et Lith par Bettanier/ GLACIER DE VIESCH’.
Plate 10 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland. Bound opposite a leaf of tissue paper numbered ‘10a’, with outline drawing of objects represented and annotations identifying them.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal in 1861 for his 'researches in palaeontology and other branches of science’. He also wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Related fellows
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807 - 1873, Swiss) , Geologist
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