South Sea Whale Fishery

Object summary

Title: South Sea Whale Fishery
Object ID: AF-WB-0251
Date made: 1835
Place made: United Kingdom, England
Publisher: Ackermann, Rudolph
Engraver: Duncan, Edward
Painter: Garneray, Ambroise Louis
Object type: Etching
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Colored etching. "No. 1 South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the method of attacking the Spermaceti Whale, also the mode of cutting them into the ship and boiling the oil on deck."

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: C 3669

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: 13109

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: $150.00

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