Ship of Barentsz in the Orange Islands, 1596. In the foreground we see two men looking out over the sea from a mountain on Nova Zembla. In the background the ship is surrounded by ice floes; a sloop sailing in front of the ship shoots at a polar bear, one of the men stands on an ice floe and pushes other ice floes away with a boat hook. In the background the Orange Islands. Opposite page 58 in: 'Warfareful Relation. Der dreyen newen uner hörten seltzaamen Schiffart so die Dutch und Seeländischen Schiff....Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed' (1598)., print, print maker: anonymous, after drawing by: Gerrit de Veer, (possibly), publisher: Levinus Hulsius, Neurenberg, 1598, paper, engraving, height, 105 mm × width, 145 mm
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Ship, Barentsz, Orange Islands, 1596, foreground, see two men looking, sea, mountain, Nova Zembla, background, ship, surrounded, ice floes, sloop sailing, front, ship shoots, polar bear, men stands, ice floe, pushes, ice, floes, away, boat hook, Opposite page 58 in, Warfareful Relation, Der dreyen newen uner hörten seltzaamen Schiffart, die Dutch und Seeländischen Schiff....Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed, 1598, print, print maker, anonymous, drawing, Gerrit de Veer, publisher, Levinus Hulsius, Neurenberg, paper, engraving, height, 105 mm × width, 145 mm
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