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Hand-colored engraving depicting an Arctic whaling scene with bears on ice in the foreground. The sea has been colored yellow. Text printed in lower margin reads:
"Seylen in t' Ys, en soeken na de Walvis. La Navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine. il Veleggaire nel gluaccio, ex cercare del Baleno. Das seeglen ins Ei��, und suchen des Wallfisches."
(In English: Sailing through the ice, and searching for Whales.)


whales
1700-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Probft, Georg Balthasar
ink; laid paper; color wash
15 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in
Netherlands