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A View of the Whale Fishery and the manner of killing bears near and on the coast of Greenland
A View of the Whale Fishery and the manner of killing bears near and on the coast of Greenland

A View of the Whale Fishery and the manner of killing bears near and on the coast of Greenland

Date1779
Object number00029934
NamePrint
MediumPrint on paper.
DimensionsOverall: 226 x 363 mm, 0.05 kg
ClassificationsArt
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionHarpooning whales in the Arctic Ocean. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Spitsbergen islands were known as Greenland to the English whalers. The print is from Middleton's Complete System of Geography published in London in 1778-1779.