Description

Uncolored lithograph of a polar bear, at left, swimming towards a small rowboat at right; the sailors are aiming muskets and oars at it; its fangs are bared. Floats of ice in foreground and background; large ship on the horizon. Title and publisher information printed in lower margin.

To accompany a description of polar bears in the book "Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821" by George William Manby (1823).