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Key Information
- Title:
- Whale or Greenland Fishery
- Object Name:
- Date/Period:
- c.1725
- Location on Display:
- Museum - Not Currently on display
- Accession No:
- KINCM:1981.544.6
- Other Numbers:
- W1.83.76
- Brief Description:
- Two coloured prints of an engraving depicting the Greenland Whale Fishery, engraved by Elisha Kirkall from a painting by Thomas Baston. The text below reads 'To The Honble. Sr. John Eyles Barrt. / Sub-Governour of the South-Sea-Company / This Plate of the Whale or Greenland Fishery is most humbly Inscrib'd'. A coat of arms in the centre has the Latin motto 'Boream sic Jungimus Austro' (The north wind we thus join to the south wind).
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36.5[cm] | 48[cm] |
