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. 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/1up
Uskee 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/1up
Canis 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/1up
Ursus 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/1up

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