2001.100.9308
Artist/Maker Tonkin, Gary
Place MadeAustralia
Title

Ramsdell the Executioner

DateCirca 2000
Mediumpencil, ink, and wash on tissue paper
Dimensions12 × 17 1/2 in. (30.5 × 44.5 cm)
Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer
Object number2001.100.9308
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionThis drawing is from a series of five drawings depicting scenes of the ESSEX disaster of 1821. The drawing is of a scene in the whaleboat where Ramsdell shoots Coffin who has drawn the lot to be killed in order that the rest might live.
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