Glacier at Spitsbergen

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Glacier surrounded by two slopes with jagged rocky peaks in the background — Glacier east-south-east of Bellsund, Spitsbergen.

Artist

Name:: Mayer, Auguste Etienne François
Dates:: 1805-1890
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Landscapes & places
Technique:: Lithograph
Lithographer:: Cicéri, Eugène
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 1)
Author(s):: Gaimard, Paul (under the direction of)
Publisher:: Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, n.d. [1852]

Description

View of a winding glacier surrounded by two slopes partly covered in snow with a jagged landscape of rocky peaks in the background.
The caption reads in the original French: Glacier à l’E.S.E. de la baie de Bell-Sound. Spitzberg.

Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, Europe, island, mountain, Norway, rock, snow, Voyages en Scandinavie...

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