Bear Island

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View of Bear Island.

Artist

Name:: Biard, François-Auguste
Dates:: 1798-1882
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Landscapes & Places
Technique:: Lithograph
Lithographer:: Bayot, Adolphe Jean-Baptiste; Sabatier, Léon
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 1)
Author:: Gaimard, Paul (under the direction of)
Publisher:: Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, n.d. [1852]

Description:

A man wearing a cap and a shawl-like fur garment scans the landscape from the shore of bear Island, Norway, with a background of stunningly eroded rocks.

The caption reads in the original French: Vue de l’île de l’Ours ou Beeren-Eiland.

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