Ebbe und Fluth

DateCirca 1883

MediumLithograph

Dimensions3 1/2 × 7 in. (8.9 × 17.8 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.6839

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionDouble cartoon with poem. In the first cartoon a whale is quietly swimming up to a bathing beach where unsuspecting bathers are leaving their horsedrawn bathhouses and beginning to wade in the shallows. In the second cartoon, the whale spouts water and roars, causing the swimmers to race pell-mell out of the water.ProvenanceBelow image: poem by Fr. Ber-ter in German: "Wie enstehet Ebbe, Fluth?..." Original drawings in Altona Museum, see Muenzing, HWB, 1987, #86, p. 132. Purchased from DETLEF REITZUCH, Ladbergen, Germany, 02/01/1989, $16.57.

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