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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

Northern Whale Fishery

Accession no.:	Y: 82/9/3
Object name:	Print
Title:	Northern Whale Fishery
Description:	Engraved by E. Duncan. Published in March 1829, by W.J.Huggins, London.
Medium:	Print
Note:	'A representation of the ship Harmony, of Hull, and other vessels with their boats and crews in the various process of attacking and killing the Whale in Davis' Straits and Greenland, with the mode of Flinching and taking the Blubber'. Other ships include the Industry, of London, the Margaret, of London, and the Eliza Swan, of Montrose.
Dimensions:	Picture: Width: 590mm, height: 405mm frame: Width: 780mm, height: 605mm