Jun 13, 2024 - Sale 2672

Sale 2672 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(WHALING.) William John Huggins, (after). Two hand-colored aquatint and engraved scenes of exploration and whale fishery. 18½x23¼ inches each sheet size, wide margins; mounted to stiff card, faint mat stain and foxing. London, 1825 and 1826 [but after]
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- South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the Ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Island of Bouro.__with their Boats & Crew, in the various process of Fishing, shewing the manner the Spermacetti Whales are caught, also the mode of cutting them into the Ship & Boiling the Oil upon Deck.

- ...The Brig Jane and Cutter Beaufoy, on 20th February 1823, bearing up in 74°15'. (Being the highest Southern Latitude ever reached).