Title:
[Northern lights off Norwegian coast]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist (artist)
Date:
1803
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1001--ffALB
Format:
painting on paper mounted on paper: watercolor
9.6 x 14.4 cm., on mount 18.9 x 22.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Three-masted sailing vessel and rowboat silhouetted against aurora borealis rising over hills in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Nature;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Paintings;
Seascapes;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors