Willem Barendsz and Jacob van Heemskerck

Nineteenth-century framed print of the famous sixteenth-century explorers Willem Barendsz and Jacob van Heemskerck, who are planning their second northern voyage attempt to India. They are depicted in a room at a table with a globe, a wall map, a ship model and a polar bear skin. Van Heemskerck is writing, Barendsz points to Nova Zembla on the sea chart on the wall.