History Forum / General / Archaeology / December 2006

And although Inger will claim she knows the source perhaps, she will never
tell anyone publicly.

In other words, the claim has no credence.
Doug

O, Inger, please don't tell us more!

No, maybe even (early) 19th century.

It proves the tower was there before the painter left.

She now says "The drawing was made by one of the first one to also draw a
map of the coast.
BUT and that's an extrem important but - it wasn't on one of his maps but
in the diary that the person had written.
And no it's not on net. "

On the 13th she wrote:
"There are two sources, one a painting
before the Governor or any other known person built anything in the area.
That's been discussed before, I think it was eight or nine years ago. BUT
and that's one hardly anyone seems to remember. When Pothurst, Pinning and
the other had been in Greenland and after trying to get into an other
fjord there they were driven ashore and taken by a storm southward,
description doesn't fit Labrador or Newfoundland. Anyhow as a Danish
seacaptain presented some years ago in a History article in a Danish
Marine Journal/Paper there do exist a drawing from where they had to stay
over winter. There is a windmill on it as well as houses. It doesn't seem
that the url I sent the group six or seven years ago is up, but I did send
the url and hope that at least someone looked at it when it was sent. "

In June she wrote that it was a painting: "Guess it's time to contact the
person who at present due to long line of inheritance owns the painting
where the tower is on. From when? more than 10 years before the first
settlers are said to have arrived. "

On the 19th of April last year she wrote:
"And we haven't even discussed the Irish painting which someone mentioned
some years ago where the tower was on before the dates say it was
built....Eric do you remember who painted it? I have a file of the
painting somewhere but I don't recall the name of the painter. "

And in October 2000:
I will try to send the painting, URL
http://www.redwood1747.org/tower/frame2.htm
to a friend(a person specialist in 15-17th Century paintings) and ask for
his opinion.

What I myself would like to know more about is the colors. The green
colors I have seen on old maps(from before 1640 AD), the sky have correct
or almost correct colors for waterpaintings from 15-16th Century, but the
yellow one I am not sure of. It's probably an incorrect image due to the
fact that the painting have been reduced before being transformed to a
html-format, that happens unfortunatly all the time that yellow colors
change more than tree steps in any direction when you don't use the
original size on the image......

Inger E "

(I've got the turkey breast in the slow cooker so my share of cooking is
done!)

Doug

Eric,
you and I most obviously aren't discussing same painting. You are discussing
a 19th century painting. I am not. I am discussing a painting from 16th
century. There is no way of saying if the top is blown up or not - it's a
tower of some kind without enough details due to distance from the position
the painter used. It's a type of water-color rather than oil and it's from a
page in an diary/annal of one who participated on one of the early sailings.

The interesting thing is that same shape, but with more details exists on
the old drawing that the Danish Marine Officer used relating to Pothurst and
Pinning's sailing and that the details seem to indicate that the tower might
have been a mill or a reservoar of some kind.

Inger E