Scraps

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions3 × 5 in. (7.6 × 12.7 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.4557

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionComic book, possibly done by a whaleman artist using a made-up name. Has various scenes aboard ship, whaling and on shore in exotic lands. Depicts a voyage of the bark SEA RANGER, date unknown.ProvenanceDepicts the voyage of the "Sea Ranger"; loose pages, including "[in ink] Introductory remarks": "If any other than Chummy, this little work quiz / Blame your eyes to the faults, or mind your own biz / For pistols, + coffee, are ready each morning / To settle critics; without further warning"; and "Contents [over] 1 S. R. [Sea Ranger] leaving the good city New Bedford, Three Cheers! / 2 Chummy feels good. / 3 Good bye Mr Bartlett + Pilot / 4 Strong breeze, "The gallant ship's a rolling" Sea legs / 5 Chummy don't feel quite so good. Pumping ship / 6 Where's everybody? Pumping ship / 7 Raising the wind / [next page] Contents continued / 8 Raising the land / 9 Fayal. Chummy's gone ashore / 10 and sees somebody buying cheese, / 11 and somebody selling oranges +c +c / 12 All aboard for Myricks / 13 + 14 What happened for quite a while / 15 Chummy's Chummy. "There he gives it to him" / 16 who went gamming and fell overboard? / [over] 17 Ranatouga. "I tell you" !!!!! / 18 Mangea. But where's the hogs? / 19 'Sunday' island / 20 'Norfolk"do_Bucephalus. Get up! / 21 "Speak for it." Bow_wow_ / 22 [in pencil] Chummy's, Chummy's, Chummy. / [in ink] 23 Flag staff hill Bay of Ids. Snook's rurality / 24 Weighing the anchor / [facing page (paper folded), numbers bracketed] 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 24 (sic) / [vertical text] Snook's Dream." Previously misnumbered P-506. Old Print Shop, New York, NY, 05/09/1966

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