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Balaena Mysticetus Linn: La Baleine de Gronland. Der gronleindische Wallfisch. The Greenland Whale.

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Black and white engraving of the Greenland Whale. Title in Latin, French, German, and English.

Classification

whales

Date Made

1780-01-02

Legal Status

PERMANENT COLLECTION

Major Collection

Hart Nautical

Maker

Lange, Gottlieb August; Sotzmann, Daniel Friedrich; Borowski, Georg Heinrich; Herbst, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm

Materials

ink; paper; mounted

Measurements

5 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in

Place Made

Germany: Stralsund and Berlin

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