Description
View of the Whale Fishery, &c. in Greenland. Engraved for Millar’s New, Complete & Universal System of Geography. Original copper engraving, 11¼ x 7″ within platemark. In good condition. [London: A. Hogg, c.1782.] Whales being harpooned by whaling parties form small boats launched from larger ships, in Arctic waters; polar bears on ice flows in foreground, and a walrus being shot. In distinctive decorative border, from George Henry Millar’s ‘The new and universal System of Geography, being a complete history and description of the whole world. …’ 1782. Thornton sculp.