Capturing a polar bear, 1594, Attempts to capture a polar bear and the attack of the captured polar bear on the sloop with Barendsz during the first voyage, July 19, 1594. Copies of the original illustrations in the travelogue of the voyage by Willem Barendsz and Jacob van Heemskerck in 1596-1597 and the stay on the island of Nova Zembla, No. 2., print, print maker: anonymous, after print by: anonymous, after drawing by: Gerrit de Veer, (possibly), Northern Netherlands, 1615 - 1617, paper, engraving, height, 139 mm × width, 175 mm

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