Bondhusbreen glacier
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 rocky field to a glacier-topped mountain range with a large ice flow leading down into the valley below. Five figures can be seen working the field in the foreground, another figure rests by a nearby rock and is shown in conversation with a woman holding a basket and with a child behind her. Round bushes line the edge of the hill the figures are working on, behind them, the grassy banks give way to rocky slopes culminating in the icy peaks of the mountain.
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. VI.’ Inscribed below: ‘James D. Forbes, del. C. Haghe lith.’ ‘Day & Son, Lithrs to The Queen’ ‘GLACIER OF BONDHUUS.’
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. VI.’ Inscribed below: ‘James D. Forbes, del. C. Haghe lith.’ ‘Day & Son, Lithrs to The Queen’ ‘GLACIER OF BONDHUUS.’
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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