"Whaling Adventury - The Flurry"

wood engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Perkins, G.
March 20, 1858
6.38 x 9.38 x 0

Wood engraving from "FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER", possibly from March 20, 1858 issue. Title: "Whaling Adventure-The Flurry". "He came rapidly onwards towards the captain's boat, throwing huge sheets of water on the crew at every sweep of his gigantic tail, and/ filling it to the very brim." Ref: "Kendall Prints", Fig. 49.

UNIDENTIFIED whaling bark; UNIDENTIFIED whaleboat
1939.1202