• Title
  South Sea whale fishery, 1825 / painted by W. J. Huggins, engraved by T. Sutherland
• Creator
  W. J. Huggins
• Call number
  V*/Wha/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1825
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  456920
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Prints - 41 x 50 cm. - 1 coloured acquatint
  
• General note
  
  `A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Island of Bouro with their boats and 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'
  `This plate is most respectfully dedicated to Ph. Skelton, Andw. Stirton & Wm. Nichols Esqrs., owners of the said ships, by their most obedient humble servant W.J. Huggins'
  `Published by W.J. Huggins marine painter, No. 105 Leadenhall St, engraved by T. Sutherland'
• Date note
  
  Jan. 1 1825 given as date of publishing in Harold Hill & Son Catalogue no. 155/1952, item no. 315, here formerly hidden by mount, revealed when cleaned.
• Conservation note
  
  Cleaned December 1952
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Sutherland, T.
  
• Name
  Amelia Wilson (ship)
  Castor (ship)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Whaling--South Pacific Ocean
  
• Topic
  seascapes (artwork)
  whaleboats
  whalemen
  whales
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8815485

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