Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Visions of the Arctic from back when it was the last frontier. Plates from Bernard O’Reilly’s work “Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817” with the illustrations made from drawings by the author. Published in 1818 in London by Baldwin, Craddock and Joy. In the collections of the State Library of Alaska and the Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Seal Hunting. Page 105, p. 80. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n104/mode/1upUskee male and female with their child. Page 112, p. 85. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n111/mode/1upCanis Lagopus. (Vulpes lagopus, the Arctic fox). Page 130. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n130/mode/1upUrsus maritimus (polar bear). Page 133. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n133/mode/1upLarus Maximus. Page 179. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Plate from Bernard O’Reilly’s work Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817. Collections of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n179/mode/1up
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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