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Hand-colored illustration showing a spouting sperm whale flicking its tail, and a man thrown up into his hair, his hat falling from his head, with a whaleboat nearby, and broken spars in the foreground. There is a whaling ship on the horizon. Caption reads "'Sent the principal man in the boat flying into the air.' P.126."


whales
1868-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Williams, A. M.; Strangeways and Walden; Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday
ink; paper; color wash; mounting
4 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in
Britain: London

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