Greenland Collection

Costumes de Différents Pays, Groenlandais en Habit de Pêche, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Groenlandais en Habit de Peche, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Groenlandaise, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Groenlandaise, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Groenlandais, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Groenlandais, c1797

The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Creator: Cornelis de Man
The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg, 1639. Other Title(s): A Whale-Oil Factory of the Nordic or Greenland Company on Amsterdam Island at the north end of Spitzbergen (Svalbard)

The World at the Beginning of the 20th Century Showing British Possessions, c1900. Creator: Artists Illustrators Ltd
The World at the Beginning of the 20th Century Showing British Possessions [in pink], c1900. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX"

Interior of a Greenlander's Hut, 1856. Creator: H. Crane
Interior of a Greenlander's Hut, 1856. In the winter they live in huts built of stones and turf, lined inside with old skins

Loss of the Schooner "Archus", loaded with Silver-Lead Ore, on the Coast of Greenland, 1856....she put into the harbour of Kajarlik, a small opening in an island of Arksuk [Arsuk] Fiord

Fiord of Kangerlic, South Greenland, in the Month of August, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Fiord of Kangerlic, South Greenland, in the Month of August, 1856. View of...the Fjord of Kangerluarsuk [also spelt Kajarlik

Exterior of a Greenlander's Hut, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Exterior of a Greenlander's Hut, 1856. In the winter they live in huts built of stones and turf, lined inside with old skins...Amongst themselves the Greenlanders have no chiefs or laws;

Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul Ford, 1856. Creator: H. Crane
Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul [sic] Ford, 1856....Evigtok...in Arksuk [Arsuk] Fiord, with the miners houses, smithy, store-house...and the lead ore being wheeled over the ice to the ship...the

Settlement by a fjord, Greenland, summer, 1883. Creator: Carl Rasmussen
Settlement by a fjord, Greenland, summer, 1883

Ruins of Church, in the Fiord of Igaliko, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Ruins of Church, in the Fiord of Igaliko, 1856. Remains of an early Christian settlement in Greenland:..many ruins have been found

Destruction of a Skin-Boat by the Falling of an Iceberg, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Destruction of a Skin-Boat by the Falling of an Iceberg, 1856. Kayak off the coast of Greenland. Boat travelling among the icebergs is not without danger; rotten icebergs frequently fall in pieces

The "Kingitorssuak" seen from a valley near Kangerdluarssunguak, Greenland, 1863. Creator: Lars Moller
The "Kingitorssuak" seen from a valley near Kangerdluarssunguak, Greenland, 1863

Eskimo kayaks, the kiss, 1842. Creator: Biard, Francois-August (1798-1882)
Eskimo kayaks, the kiss, 1842. Found in the collection of Musee d Art et d Histoire Baron Gerard, Bayeux

Ship in Ice, Greenland Expedition, ca. 1859. Creator: Isaac Israel Hayes
Ship in Ice, Greenland Expedition, ca. 1859

Off Greenland—Whaler Seeking Open Water. Creator: William Bradford
Off Greenland--Whaler Seeking Open Water

An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, 1871. Creator: William Bradford
An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, 1871

Whale or Greenland Fishery, 1720, (1946). Creator: Elisha Kirkall
Whale or Greenland Fishery, 1720, (1946). British whaling ships off the coast of Greenland: sailors in small rowing boats hunt whales with harpoons; men attack a polar bear at bottom left

Greenlander. Creator: Unknown
Greenlander. An inuit hunting walrus in his kayak

Young Inuit women, Greenland, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Young Inuit women, Greenland, c1928. Two women in traditional costume, living in the Arctic Circle. From " Die Welt in Bildern", (The World in Pictures), cigarette card album, c1928

Map of North America, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Map of North America, 1902. Showing the USA, Canada, Greenland, Central America and the Caribbean, with an inset of the Isthmus of Nicaragua. From The Century Atlas of the World

North Polar Chart, 1902. Creator: Unknown
North Polar Chart, 1902. Showing the Arctic Circle. From The Century Atlas of the World. [John Walker & Co, Ltd. London, 1902]

Map of the North Atlantic Ocean. Map showing western Europen and Iceland, Greenland, eastern Canada and the United States, Central American and the Caribbean, and West Africa

Map of the North Polar Regions. Map of the Arctic Circle showing Iceland and Scandinavia, northern Russia, Greenland, northern Canada and Alaska. Plate 8 from The Times Atlas

The second German northpolar expedition to the Arctic and Greenland in 1869. Artist: Anonymous
The second German northpolar expedition to the Arctic and Greenland in 1869. Private Collection

The Teufelsschloss in Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. The second German northpolar expedition to the Arct Artist: Anonymous
The Teufelsschloss in Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. The second German northpolar expedition to the Arctic and Greenland in 1869. Private Collection

Greenland, c1930s
Greenland. Umanak Settlement commands a view of the fjord, of indescribale grandeur and harmony of colour, rugged cliffs rise sheer from the ocean

A Greenlander Surprised by a Bear, c1927, (1928). From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928]

Singing Combat, 1787. Artist: Thornthwaite
Singing Combat, 1787. Greenlanders settling an argument with Singing Combat. After Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759?1817)

Eskimos, Greenland. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Eskimos, Greenland. Stereoscopic card detail

Elisha Kent Kane and his companions in Greenland, c1855 (c1880). Kane served as senior medical officer on the Grinnell Arctic Expedition of 1850-1851

Eskimos, Nothern Greenland, 1904. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Eskimos, Nothern Greenland, 1904. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Descriptive Bulletin No. 3

Danish Whaling Station, 1634. Artist: Speeck, Abraham (active 17th century)
Danish Whaling Station, 1634. Found in the collection of the Skokloster Castle

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, 1846. Artist: JMW Turner
Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, 1846. From the Tate Gallery, London

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