Theodul 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): 325mm
width (page): 470mm
height (plate): 230mm
width (plate): 330mm
width (page): 470mm
height (plate): 230mm
width (plate): 330mm
Subject
Description
Two views of the Theodul glacier, Valais, Switzerland. The upper showing the stratification of the glacier, the lower showing the texture of the snow in this area.
Inscribed below plate 13i: ‘STRATIFICATION DU GLACIER DE ST. THEODULE [Stratification of the Theodul glacier]’.
Inscribed below plate 13ii: ‘D’apres nat. et Lith par Bettannier. Litho de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ VIEULLE NEIGE FISURÉE AVEC DES TACHES DE NIEGE FRAICHE [Old cracked snow with patches of fresh snow]’.
Plates 13i and ii 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 ‘13a i’ and ‘13a ii’, 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 plate 13i: ‘STRATIFICATION DU GLACIER DE ST. THEODULE [Stratification of the Theodul glacier]’.
Inscribed below plate 13ii: ‘D’apres nat. et Lith par Bettannier. Litho de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ VIEULLE NEIGE FISURÉE AVEC DES TACHES DE NIEGE FRAICHE [Old cracked snow with patches of fresh snow]’.
Plates 13i and ii 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 ‘13a i’ and ‘13a ii’, 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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