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A Whale Upsetting a Boat.

Object summary

Title
A Whale Upsetting a Boat.
Object ID
AF-WB-0040
Date made
1823
Place made

United Kingdom, Greater London, London

Draughtsman
Harding, James Duffield
Engraver
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph
Publisher
Whittaker, G. & W. B.
Object type
Lithograph
Major collection
Nautical
Named collection
Allan Forbes Collection
On view
Yes
Exhibition
Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science
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Description

Whaling scene of a whale overturning a whaleboat with its tail amid Arctic ice floes.

Published with George William Manby's "Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the Year 1821"

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