"Right Whaling in the Behring Sea, and its Varities"

color lithograph

PRINTS - LITHOGRAPHS
Russell, Benjamin; H.S. Hutchinson & Co.
Bering Sea
1897
paper
15 x 27 in.

Color lithograph after Benjamin Russell painting, "Right Whaling in the Behring Sea, and its Varities"; with frame said to have been made out of wood from whaling bark WANDERER; possible provenance: The Jibboom Club, New London, Connecticut; text across bottom of lithograph reads "Copyrighted 1871 by Benjamin Russell./ CAPE EAST./ SHIP ABANDONED, CRUSHED IN THE ICE./ TOWING BLASTED WHALE TO SHIP./ TRYING OUT AT ANCHOR./ BLUBBER LOGGED./ BOW HEAD WHALE PURSUED./ THE DIAMEDES./ FAIRWAY ROCKS./ FULL SHIP ROUND HOME./ BOAT IN FULL CHASE./ SHIPS TRYING OUT IN THE ARCTIC./ LANCING A BOW HEAD./ TAKING IN HEAD WITH WHALEBONE./ Copyrighted 1897 by H. S. Hutchinson & Co. New Bedford, Mass./ CAPE PRINCE OF WHALES./ SHIP BOILING HER LAST WHALE./ WALRUS ON THE ICE./ RIGHT WHALING IN BEHRING STRAITS AND ARCTIC OCEAN WITH ITS VARIETIES./ FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BENJAMIN RUSSELL, NEW BEDFORD, MASS."

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