• iceland - image 11

    title: Hekla (A. Ortelius) Detail from map of Iceland 1585

    artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Abraham_Ortelius" class="extiw" title="w:en:Abraham Ortelius">Abraham Ortelius</a> </bdi>

    date: 1585

    source: [altiplano]

    credit: [altiplano]

    description: Detail of Abraham Ortelius' map of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">iceland</u> (1585) showing the Volcano Hekla in eruption. The latin text "Hekla perpetuis/damnata estib. et ni:/uib. horrendo boatu/lapides evomit" means "The Hekla, perpetually condemned to storms and snow, vomits stones under terrible noise."

  • iceland - image 22

    title: <div class="fn"> Danemark 1833.</div>

    artist: <div class="fn value"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/maltebrun.txt">http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/maltebrun.txt</a> </div>

    date: 1833<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1833-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

    dimensions: Size unit=in width=12 height=9

    source: Geographicus-source

    credit: This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.geographicus.com/">Geographicus Rare Antique Maps</a>, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geographicus" title="Commons:Geographicus">cooperation project</a>.

    description: This is a beautiful 1833 hand colored map of Danemark (Denmark). Includes a beautiful inset of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">iceland</u> and a smaller inset of the Faroe Islands. All text is in French.

  • iceland - image 33

    title: Inspection vessel FYLLA off iceland by Christian Benjamin Olsen bewerkt

    artist: <bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12303114" class="extiw" title="d:Q12303114">Benjamin Olsen</a> </bdi>

    date: 20 June 2013, 11:29:48

    source: own

    credit: <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>

    description: <div class="description"> Photographed at the Royal Danish Naval Museum Copenhagen, Denmark. Olsen visited the Faroe Islands and <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">iceland</u> in 1921, 1926 and 1930.</div>

  • iceland - image 44

    title: (Baumg1889) Nach überstandenem Ritt

    artist: unknown

    date: 1889<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

    source: Image extracted from page 227 of ''Nordische Fahrten - Island und die Faröer. Skizzen und Studien'', by BAUMGARTNER, Alexander. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied [https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11199949395 from Flickr]. ''Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.'' Mechanical Curator image

    credit: This file is from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection" title="Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection">Mechanical Curator collection</a>, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. <small> </small><p> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11199949395">View image on Flickr</a>   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum000231254">View all images from book</a>  </p>  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01000231254">View catalogue entry for book</a>. 

  • iceland - image 55

    title: THE GREAT GEYSER (1850)

    artist: unknown

    date: 1851<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

    source: Image extracted from page 059 of ''Notes of the cruise of the “Caprice” Yacht, Royal St. George's Yacht Club, to Iceland and Norway, in the summer and autumn of 1850'', by P., W. T.. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied [https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11037148143 from Flickr]. ''Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.'' Mechanical Curator image

    credit: This file is from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection" title="Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection">Mechanical Curator collection</a>, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. <small> </small><p> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11037148143">View image on Flickr</a>   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002743527">View all images from book</a>  </p>  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01002743527">View catalogue entry for book</a>. 

  • iceland - image 66

    title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Portrait of Markús Bergsson</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Portrait of Markús Bergsson"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhu,"Markús Bergsson körzeti előljáró portréja"</div> </div>

    artist: <div class="fn value"> Rev. Hjalti Thorsteinsson of Vatnsfjördur</div>

    date: between 1710 and 1741 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1710-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

    current location: Institution:National Museum of Iceland

    source: Photo by Szilas in the National Museum of Iceland

    credit: Photo by Szilas in the National Museum of Iceland

  • iceland - image 77

    title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>Interior of a house in Iceland at the end of the 19th century</i></span></span><div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"Interior of a house in Iceland at the end of the 19th century"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Lhu,"Jón Sigurðsson portréja a 19. század végén"</div> </div>

    artist: <div class="fn value"> <bdi lang="">Unknown author</bdi> </div>

    date: 19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>

    medium: drawing

    current location: Institution:National Museum of Iceland

    source: Photo by Szilas in the National Museum of Iceland

    credit: Photo by Szilas in the National Museum of Iceland

  • iceland - image 88

    title: <div class="fn"> A cauldron of boiling mud on a sulphur mountain, Iceland. Co</div>

    artist: unknown

    source: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/d1/06/bb010013fa7ed2b133ca42751d03.jpg * Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0025221EB.html * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p6cpbkzr [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0]

    credit: <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/d1/06/bb010013fa7ed2b133ca42751d03.jpg">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/d1/06/bb010013fa7ed2b133ca42751d03.jpg</a> </p> <ul> <li>Gallery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0025221EB.html">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0025221EB.html</a> </li> <li>Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p6cpbkzr">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p6cpbkzr</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a> </li> </ul>

    description: <div class="description"> <p>A cauldron of boiling mud on a sulphur mountain, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">iceland</u>. Coloured aquatint by J. Smith, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie. </p> <p>Iconographic Collections<br> Keywords: George Steuart Mackenzie; I. Clark</p> </div>

    license:CC BY 4.0

  • iceland - image 99

    title: NE Atlantic, Spain to Iceland RMG C4567 5

    artist: <div class="fn value"> Oliva, Joan</div>

    date: 1592<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1592-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

    dimensions: 19.5 x 25cm

    source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/541086

    credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/541086">http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/541086</a>

    description: [NE Atlantic, Spain to <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">iceland</u>]Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum. Scale: [ca. 1:14 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Latitude scale. Contents Note: Iconography: king of France depicted; other states represented by shields. <p>From an atlas of six cartographic items with an authorship page: 'Joan Oliva in Missina. Ano 1592.'.<br></p> unavailable

  • iceland - image 1010

    title: <div class="fn"> Iceland Gull</div>

    artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Magnus_von_Wright" class="extiw" title="w:en:Magnus von Wright">Magnus von Wright</a> </bdi>

    date: 1838 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20786900#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>

    current location: Institution:Finnish National Gallery

    source: http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+1022%3A24

    credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+1022%3A24">http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+1022%3A24</a>

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