Author: LAAN, Adolf van der & Siewert van der MEULEN.
Title: 'T Binnen seylen der Groenlands vaarders. - La navigation des pecheurs dans le port. - Il veleggiare dei pescatori nel porto. - Das Seeglen der Grönlands Fahren in dem Hafen.
Description: (Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750). Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 29,5 x 40 cm. Optical whaling print depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers. First published by Petrus Schenk about 1720 as part of a set of 16 prints. 'The set of sixteen is among the classics of whaling prints. The exceptional comprehensiveness, historical accuracy, maritime detail, and artistry are rare in the history of the pictorial documentation of the industry (Ingalls p.9). - (Cut short; sl. soiled). Ingalls 147; Cf. Brewington 86.

Keywords: Arctic Dutch maritime history Pole prints prints optica prints pole whaling