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  • Silver King, a polar bear, being taken by ship away from his homeland. Colour lithograph.
  • Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round circular images of the Antarctic Ocean with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing by E. Wilson?, c.1844.
  • Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).
  • Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round images of the Antarctic Sea with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing, c.1844.
  • A polar bear standing on an ice floe in the Arctic sea. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A polar bear encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by P. Mazell, 1784, after J. Webber.