Fighting Whale

Mediumwatercolor on paper

Dimensions[H]24" __[W]19" (sight) __[D] __[Dia] __[L] __[Remarks]Framed: [H] 35 1/2" x [W] 31" matted under glass

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.4872

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionThis view is a closeup of three men in a whaleboat, two on the oars and the third poised in the bow with the harpoon ready to strike at a sperm whale that has just crushed another boat. The whale's flukes are in the air along with boat fragments and crew-members who have been thrown overboard by the whale's attack.ProvenancePurchased from Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc, East Dennis, 07/28/1994, $935.00.

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