The ship gets stuck in Ice Harbour, late August 1596

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The ship gets stuck in Ice Harbour, late August 1596

Veer, Gerrit de

The image combines various events of 26 and 27 august 1597. In the foreground, crew members who were on the ice to clear a passage for the ship, jump back on board for safety. In the background, the ship is pushed out of the water by the ice and some of the crewmembers make landfall at Ice Harbour. From the Wahrhafftige Relation, the German version of Gerrit de Veer’s journal, published in 1598. (See under ‘documentation’ for details.)

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Is part of:

Ice Harbour, Novaya Zemlya, 21 August 1596 - 13 June 1597

Creator

Veer, Gerrit de (copied after)

Period

1598

Technique

engraving

Kind

print

Number

NG-1979-564-17

Owner

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Tags

ship / vessel

Sources and literature

Veer, Gerrit de, Om de Noord: de tochten van Willem Barentsz en Jacob van Heemskerck en de overwintering op Nova Zembla, zoals opgetekend door Gerrit de Veer (1598)

Veer, Gerrit de, Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff....Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 verricht (NG-1979-564) (1598)