American Whalers Crushed in the Ice. Burning the wrecks to avoid danger to other vessels

Hand-colored engraving depicting an Arctic scene with a burning whaleship at right, and another behind it. There is an intact ship on the ice at left. In the foreground, men are climing over chunks of ice, and two men are pulling a whaleboat loaded with furs and a pair of barrels. Great clouds of smoke swell up over the wrecks, being blown to the right. In the lower margin is printed the title.