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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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