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Title: [Northern lights off Norwegian coast]
Creator: Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1803
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Three-masted sailing vessel and rowboat silhouetted against aurora borealis rising over hills in distance.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Nordlicht beobachtet [...?] Sept. 1803 an der Norwegischen Küste. Handwritten on mount (LL, in pencil): Bd. I pag. 3 - Tab. I; (on verso): Langsdorff... Ref. note: In German edition of Voyages & Travels...; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper mounted on paper: watercolor 9.6 x 14.4 cm., on mount 18.9 x 22.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8h4nb892
BANC PIC 1963.002:1001--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Nature
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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