Glaciers at Nusfjord
Date
1853
Creator
Charles Haghe (1810 - 1888, Belgian) , Lithographer
After
James David Forbes (1809 - 1868, British) , Draughtsman
Object type
Library reference
RCN 39523
Material
Technique
Subject
Description
View across a fjord, a narrow sea inlet, towards a mountain range holding a glacier. A number of ice flows can be seen leading from the glacier into the fjord below. A ship is shown towards the left of the image by a grassy outcrop. Several of the jagged peaks hold smaller collections of snow and ice in addition to the main glacier, which runs across the length of the range.
Plate 5 from the book Norway and its glaciers visited in 1851; followed by, Journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy by James D. Forbes (Edinburgh, 1853).
Inscribed above: ‘Pl. V.’ Inscribed below: ‘James D. Forbes, del. C. Haghe lith.’ ‘Day & Son, Lithrs to The Queen’ ‘GLACIERS OF THE NUS-FIORD.’
James David Forbes (1809 - 1868), British physicist and glaciologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1832. He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1838, the Royal Medal in 1843 and delivered the Bakerian lecture in 1842 and 1846.
Plate 5 from the book Norway and its glaciers visited in 1851; followed by, Journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy by James D. Forbes (Edinburgh, 1853).
Inscribed above: ‘Pl. V.’ Inscribed below: ‘James D. Forbes, del. C. Haghe lith.’ ‘Day & Son, Lithrs to The Queen’ ‘GLACIERS OF THE NUS-FIORD.’
James David Forbes (1809 - 1868), British physicist and glaciologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1832. He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1838, the Royal Medal in 1843 and delivered the Bakerian lecture in 1842 and 1846.
Related fellows
James David Forbes (1809 - 1868, British) , Physicist
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