EditorialWoman of Nootka Sound. Drawn from nature by John Webber and engraved by William Sharp. The head and shoulders of a woman wearing a cedar bark rain cape with a sea otter fur collar and a basketry rain hat with a bulbous top decorated with scenes of whal...
EditorialWoman of Nootka Sound. Drawn from nature by John Webber and engraved by William Sharp. The head and shoulders of a woman wearing a cedar bark rain cape with a sea otter fur collar and a basketry rain hat with a bulbous top decorated with scenes of whal...
EditorialCup with a whaling scene, Porcelain cup painted on the glaze in blue, red, yellow, black and gold. On the outside wall a representation of whale hunting with a sloop with three men, one of which is firing on a polar bear, in addition, two sloops with c...
EditorialSaucer with a whaling scene, Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, yellow, black and gold. On the front a representation of whale hunting with a sloop with three men, one of which is firing on a polar bear, behind them two sloops with crew...
EditorialCalyx with whale hunting and the inscription: The prosperity of the greenland fishing, Calyx with conical foot and baluster stem with three knots and a bubble inserted. On the goblet the representation of a whale hunt and the inscription: The prosperit...
EditorialMap of Spitsbergen by Thomas Edge, 1625 Greneland (title on object), Map of the west coast of Spitsbergen (indicated on the map as 'Greneland'), with the coastline indicated as far as known. Many English toponyms are indicated along the coastline. In t...
EditorialWoman of Nootka Sound. Drawn from nature by John Webber and engraved by William Sharp. The head and shoulders of a woman wearing a cedar bark rain cape with a sea otter fur collar and a basketry rain hat with a bulbous top decorated with scenes of whal...
EditorialHizen goto kujiraryo no zu, Whale hunting at the island of Goto in Hizen., Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826?-1869, artist, 1859., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 35.4 x 24.1 cm., Whalers armed with harpoons hunting whales.
EditorialHizen goto kujiraryo no zu, Whale hunting at the island of Goto in Hizen., Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826?-1869, artist, 1859., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 35.4 x 24.1 cm., Whalers armed with harpoons hunting whales.