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Artist
- Name:
- Forbes, James David
- Dates:
- 1809-1868
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Landscapes & places
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Day & Son, Haghe, Charles
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Library of Congress, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851
- Author(s):
- Forbes, James David
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of the Bondhusbreen, a glacier located in Hordaland county, Norway. It is described as follows by the author:
Our path to the Bondhuus Brae[1] (or glacier) lay right up a lateral valley, at whose opening the little village is placed, and from which a foaming torrent of no small size rushes to the sea. We began at once to ascend a very steep mound of debris, with a level top, which closes the valley. […] The views are very striking and alpine; the glacier is always the principal object, even from the sea. It descends at first gradually from the snow-fields of the Folgefond[2] between two precipitous rocks, and falls steeply into the valley, with a slope comparable to that of the Glacier des Bossons descending from Mont Blanc.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, color, Europe, mountain, Norway, reference book, snow, Victorian
