Aargletschers
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
Landscape view of the Unteraar section of the Aargletschers, a system of glaciers located in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, showing the Finsteraar glacier to the left as viewed, and the Lanteraar glacier to the right. Behind, the peaks of Finesteraarhorn, Lauteraarhorn and Schrekhorn are visible, left to right respectively. A small hut is visible in the foreground with two figures lying, possibly Louis Agassiz and Franz Hugi.
Inscribed below: ‘Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse) Dess. d’apres nature et Lith par Bettanier/ GLACIER DE L’AAR/ Partie Superieure avec la cabane de Mr. Hugi [Upper part with Mr. Hugi’s hut]’.
Plate 14 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 ‘14’, 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.
Franz Joseph Hugi (1791-1855), Swiss geologist and teacher, known as the ‘father of winter mountaineering’.
Inscribed below: ‘Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse) Dess. d’apres nature et Lith par Bettanier/ GLACIER DE L’AAR/ Partie Superieure avec la cabane de Mr. Hugi [Upper part with Mr. Hugi’s hut]’.
Plate 14 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 ‘14’, 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.
Franz Joseph Hugi (1791-1855), Swiss geologist and teacher, known as the ‘father of winter mountaineering’.
Related fellows
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807 - 1873, Swiss) , Geologist
Associated place