Greenland Gallery

Trades in Regency England: Greenland ship to Hull

Trades in Regency England: Greenland ship to Hull, broad-cloth manufacture and watchmaker. Sailship bringing whale blubber oil from Greenland to the port of Hull 61, weaver making broadcloth on a loom in a cottage in Leeds 62, and watchmaker at his desk in Lancaster 63. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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Harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus. Female

Harp seal female, Pagophilus groenlandicus (Greenland or harp seal, Phoca groenlandica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith of a specimen in the Museum of Prince Maximilian of Neuwied from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825. Date:

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American occupation of Iceland by G. H. Davis

The USA in European waters: American occupation of Iceland during the Second World War. A detailed relief map of Iceland, its fjords and mountains, showing distances from America, Greenland and Britain. Another map showing its position in relation to other countries. Date: 1941

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