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Key Information

Title:
The Whale Fishing & Killing of Morsses
Object Name:
print
Date/Period:
1711
Location on Display:
Museum - Not Currently on display
Accession No:
KINCM:1981.537
Other Numbers:
W1.99.76
Brief Description:
Print with an engraving depicting whaling in Spitzbergen, with images of birds, a walrus, a whale and a narwhal in the foreground. It has the title 'The Whale Fishing & Killing of Morsses', and a binder's page reference 'Supplemt. Tab. S. Pag. 179'. The image, with the title in English, appeared as an illustration to the section on Friderich Martens (1634-1699) and his 1671 voyage to Spitzbergen (Svalbard) and Greenland as part of a book entitled 'An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries' published in London in 1711.

Dimensions:

Type Height Width Depth Diameter Weight
17[cm] 15[cm]