Print shows a view of a settlement at Goulding's Harbor, a side channel of Portlock's Harbor between Sitka and Juneau in Alaska, visited by the ships King George and Queen Charlotte and Captains Portlock and Dixon. Two men holding rope, pulling small ...
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc70 789vi: On sheet 18.3 x 23,0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Stockdale & G. Goulding
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America and Alaska
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Voyages around the world, and Discovery and exploration
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
