This is a hand-coloured aquatint (a print made from an engraving on copper) showing a boat's crew from a British whaling ship about to harpoon a whale. Measuring 18 cm x 22.8 cm, the print appeared in a book entitled 'Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes ...'
Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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Creator | John Heaviside Clark, artist M Dubourg, artist Edward Orme, publisher, 1813 |
Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic- an8936139
TLF resource R3041 |
Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |