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Broadside with four subjects: Above and left is a woodcut of a family of indigenous Mexicans; above right is a woodcut of the Les Kamtschadales, a tribe from a region of Siberia; below left is a woodcut of a whale (la baleine); below right is a woodcut of a shark (le requin). Title from two bottom subjects due to the collection being part of the Forbes Whaling Collection. Handwritten inscriptions in ink on the top right margin.

Production information printed in bottom margins after the texts of La Baleine and Le Requin: imp. Rouen. d'Emile, Periaux.


whales
1815-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
P̩riaux, ��mile
ink; paper
17 1/2 in x 26 in
France: Rouen

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