Groenlandja – Historic Print
![Groenlandja, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f00148c656b4-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Groenlandja, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A fold-out engraving titled "Groenlandja" pictures Greenland as a place of hunting, with kayaks, seals and whales, and it combines a map with scenes of Arctic life. It was made as an illustration for *Naeuw Keurige Beschrijvinge van Oud en Nieuw Groenland*, a Dutch-language account of the island. Dutch whaling fleets worked the waters off Greenland for generations, and books like this one gave readers at home their main look at the Arctic and the Inuit hunters who lived there. The record gives no date, so the exact year of publication is unconfirmed, but the picture is worth noticing for how it blends geography with ethnographic detail.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Naeuw Keurige Beschrgvingh van Oud en Nieuw Groneland, fold-out illus. preceding page 1. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - HUNTING. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hunting; Animals--Seals; Animals--Whale; Whaling; Kayaks; Maps; Arctic regions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,008 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150424 |
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