Whaling scene, cutting in blubber

etching and aquatint

PRINTS - AQUATINTS
Arms, John Taylor
1925
paper
overall: 16-1/8 x 19-3/4 in.; image: 12-1/2 x 16 in.; mat: 17-3/4 x 20-3/4 in.

Print; etching and aquatint, whaling scene, on board whaling vessel, a cutting-in stage made of planks is suspended above the whale so the men are positioned above the carcass stripping the blubber off, several other square-rigged vessels are in the background; handwritten in pencil lower right "John Taylor Arms - 1925".

2004.21.3