No. 98. Castle Berg in Melville Bay over two hundred feet high. The Figure, which is some seventy-five feet from the Base, gives an object to compare with the Berg. The Ice in the foreground is about eighteen inches in thickness

Artist Dunmore & Critcherson (Dunmore, American (1831-1902); Critcherson, American30 (1823-1892))

Author William Bradford (American, 1823 - 1892)

Date1869

MediumBook illustrated with 141 original albumen prints

DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches (27.61 x 38.43 cm)
Book: 24 1/4 x 21 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches (61.6 x 53.66 x 6.67 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2005.37.49.A

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DescriptionPlate after page 74 of The Arctic Regions.

From William Bradford's The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873).

Large folio with elaborate gilded leather binding containing 141 mounted albumen prints by John Dunmore and George Critcherson (one as vignette on title, one on double page, 24 full page and 115 of various sizes on the text).

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