Grimsel pass
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 a hospice situated on the Grimsel Pass, a mountain pass in Switzerland crossing the Bernese Alps. Various figures, some on horseback, and a herd of goat are visible in the foreground.
Inscribed below: ‘Bettannier lith. Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ HOSPICE DU GRIMSEL. [Grimsel hospice]’.
Plate 19 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland.
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: ‘Bettannier lith. Lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel (Suisse)/ HOSPICE DU GRIMSEL. [Grimsel hospice]’.
Plate 19 from Louis Agassiz’s Etudes sur les glaciers: atlas de 32 planches (Neuchatel, 1840), a study of glaciers in Switzerland.
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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