Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Seals and bears of Greenland]
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Accession number:
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35269
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Record number:
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35269-3
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JCB call number:
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G746 E29b
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Image title:
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[Seals and bears of Greenland]
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Place image published:
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[Delft]
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Image publisher:
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[Reinier Boitet]
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Image date:
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[1746]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 48
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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16.9 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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10.9 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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20.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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14.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Dutch
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Description:
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Inuit hunting and animals of Greenland. In the background an Inuit and a pack of dogs kill a bear near the Inuit's dogs and dogsled. Also includes a fox. In the foreground a seal or sea lion defends its calf against a bear's attack.
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Source creator:
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Egede, Hans, 1686-1758
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Source Title:
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[Gamle Grønlands nye perlustration. Dutch] Beschryving van Oud-Groenland, of eigentlyk van de zoogenaamde Straat Davis ...
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Source place of publication:
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Te Delft
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Source publisher:
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By Reinier Boitet
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Source date:
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1746
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notes:
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The bear is most likely a polar bear, Ursus maritimus. One of the seals is probably the hooded seal. In 1721 Hans Egede, with the permission of the united kingdom of Denmark-Norway, founded a trading company and a Lutheran mission near present-day Nuuk (Godthåb). He had hoped to rediscover and reestablish the original Norse colonies on Greenland. He published the first book in an Inuit language in 1742. This translation into Dutch was based on the second and longer Danish publication of this work, which appeared in 1741. Cf. Hans Egede, Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, Copenhagen, 1741 (#01609-6) for the original version of this image.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Arctic
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Seals (Animals)--Greenland
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Subject headings:
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Zoology--Greenland
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Subject headings:
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Inuit--Hunting--Greenland
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Greenland
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