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Hand-colored engraving of men at work on whale products. In two scenes. Top, one man pours a bubbling liquid from a large ladle over a cauldron, while another uses a long knife on some sort of leatherlike skin laid on a workbench. Below, three men work on wood box-like apparatuses with various spigots and chutes leading out of them. One man smokes a pipe. Labeled "T.LXX", and "182" on top scene, "184" on lower.


whales
1700-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Maury
ink; laid paper
6 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in
unknown

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