Nantucket sleigh-ride by Thomas Petersen

mural

PAINTINGS - OIL
Petersen, Thomas Ferrier
1924
114.44 x 114.75 x 0

Mural of whaleship, "CONNECTICUT NEW LONDON" discernable across stern, pursuing a whale in a "Nantucket sleigh-ride"; ship CONNECTICUT launched 1822, Norwich, CT; condemned and sold, Honolulu, 1849; mural painted 1924 by Thomas Ferrier Petersen, born Norway ,1881; d. 1926, Norwich, Conn.

UNIDENTIFIED whaling bark
1939.1548