WHALER REFITTING

Mediumengraving

Dimensions26 × 37 in. (66 × 94 cm)

Object number00.201.2

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionEngraving on paper with dark stained oak frame lined with a thin gold beaded band and matted with off-white matte with bevel edge to print. To the left: a small building with man seated inside, dismantled whaleship at dock seen from bow, one whaleboat on davits. 3 men working on platform alongside with small boat nearby. Bow and stern of two other vessels seen at stern of whaleship, another dismantled ship to right, city in the distance, 4 pilings in right foreground, 2 small boats rowed in middle.ProvenanceCopy of same lithograph in collection, 1994.15 (in Print Cabinet)

On View

Not on view