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| Accession no.: | Y: 2009/12/5 |
| Title: | Northern Whale Fishery |
| Description: | Northern Whale Fishery, depicting the ship Harmony, of Hull, and other ice-bound whalers, hunting seals, narwhals and whales off Greenland. Original hand-coloured aquatint by Edward Duncan, after W.J. Huggins, Marine Painter to his Majesty. |
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| Artist: | Huggins, William John |
| Note: | A representation of the Ship Harmony, of Hull, & other Vessels with their Boats & Crews in the various process of attacking and killing the Whale in Davis Straits and Greenland, with the mode of Flinching & taking in the Blubber. |