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Framed lithograph of a whale fishery. There are four ships in view and fourteen longboats. The ships are surrounded by ice and in the left background is a shipwreck on the ice. There are walruses, whales, seals and narwhales in the lower left corner. Numerous figures are pictured hunting, killing and harvesting whales and seals.
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"NORTHERN WHALE FISHERY / A representation of the ship HARMONY of HULL, and other Vessels with their Boats & Crews in the various process of attacking and killing the Whale in / Davis Straits and Greeland with the mode of Flinching & taking in the blubber." (printed)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P389
FA055
Unknown
24 11/16 x 33 5/16 x 11/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.812
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