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Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Frontispiece from the 1835 edition of "Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions", featuring a small woodcut with a spouting whale upsetting and splitting in two a whaling boat, at left, while another boat approaches on the right. Two ships, one on the horizon, and a whale, are on the right-hand of the background.


whales
1835-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Oliver & Boyd
ink; paper; mounting; color wash
6 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in
Britain: Edinburgh

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